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James Rainwater

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In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.


— James Rainwater


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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.


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The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.


— James Rainwater


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The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.


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He was named Pupin Professor of Physics in 1982. His ideas were later tested and confirmed by Bohr's and Mottelson's experiments. Rainwater also contributed to the scientific understanding of X-rays and participated in the United States Atomic Energy Commission and naval research projects.

Leo James Rainwater (December 9 1917 – May 31 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei.

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