She was buried at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego. Maria Goeppert Mayer died in San Diego, California, on February 20, 1972, right after a heart assault that experienced struck her the previous calendar year still left her comatose. However, after her very first year her mentor, Allen Whipple, prompt that for the reason that she was a woman she must go after anesthesiology in its place. She was the first lady to maintain that rank there.