Died 1986-05-31.
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James Rainwater
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.
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Born 9 December 1917 · Died 31 May 1986 · Q190745
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1986· 1 entry
1985· 1 entry
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1975· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1975).
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To inform him that he had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, he initially thought that it was for his work on muonic atoms
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For his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei
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1963· 3 entries
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1963).
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And in 1975 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nuc
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Was awarded the United States Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, for his work on the Manhattan Project
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1952· 2 entries
And 1953 that demonstrated convincing agreement with available data
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And was the director of Nevis Laboratories from 1951 to 1954 and again from 1957 to 1961
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1950· 1 entry
At the Nevis Laboratories, on an estate on the Hudson River at Irvington, New York, willed to Columbia University by the DuPont family
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1949· 2 entries
By Maria Goeppert Mayer's nuclear shell model, which could explain more about the structure of heavy elements than the older theory but it still had limits
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Began developing his theory that, contrary to what was then believed, not all atomic nuclei are spherical
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1948· 1 entry
Began teaching courses on nuclear structure
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1946· 1 entry
Where he reached the rank of full professor in 1952 and was named Pupin Professor of Physics in 1982
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1939· 1 entry
That they based on the liquid drop model of the nucleus
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1917· 2 entries
Born 1917-12-09.
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In Council, Idaho, the son of a former civil engineer who ran the local general store, Leo Jaspar Rainwater and his wife Edna Eliza née Teague
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