Leo James Rainwater

Leo James Rainwater, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1917-12-09 in Council, ID, USA

Gender: male

Field: American physicist

Biography

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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975

Awarded on: 1975-10-17

"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"

Affiliations:

  • Columbia UniversityNew York, NY, USA