Quotes by James Rainwater

About 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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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.

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameJames Rainwater
  • DescriptionAmerican physicist
  • AliasesLeo James Rainwater
  • BornDecember 9, 1917
  • DiedMay 31, 1986
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhysicist
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Physics