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Infobox scientist|name = Leo James Rainwater| box_width = 270px|image = Leo James Rainwater.jpg|image_size = 160px|caption =|birth_date = Birth date|1917|12|9|birth_place = Council, Idaho|Council , Idaho |death_date = Death date and age|1986|5|31|1917|12|9|death_place =|residence =|citizenship =|nationality =|ethnicity =|fields =|workplaces = Columbia University Manhattan Project |alma_mater = Columbia University California Institute of Technology|Caltech |doctoral_advisor =|academic_advisors =|doctoral_students =|notable_students =|known_for =|author_abbrev_bot =|author_abbrev_zoo =|influences =|influenced =|awards = Nobel Prize in Physics (1975) Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1963)|religion =|signature = |footnotes = Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 & ndash; 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. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1975/index.html The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975
Biography
Rainwater was born on December 9, 1917 in Council, Idaho , but later moved to Hanford, California , after the death of his father to the Spanish flu|great influenza epidemic of 1918 . He received his bachelor's degree from California Institute of Technology in 1939 as a physics major, then went on to earn a PhD at Columbia University in 1946.
During World War II , he worked on the Manhattan Project , which was the nick-name given to underground research conducted to invent the first usable atomic bomb. In 1949, he began developing his theory that, contrary to what was then believed, not all atomic nuclei are spherical. His ideas were later tested and confirmed by Aage Bohr|Bohr 's and Ben Roy Mottelson|Mottelson 's experiments. Rainwater also contributed to the scientific understanding of X-ray s and participated in the United States Atomic Energy Commission and naval research projects. He joined the physics faculty at Columbia in 1946, where he reached the rank of full professor in 1952. He was named Pupin Professor of Physics in 1982. Rainwater also received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for Physics in 1963. In 1975 Rainwater was awarded the Noble 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". http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1975/rainwater.html The Nobel Prize in Physics 1975
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http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/rainwater.html Photograph, Biography and Bibliographic Resources, from the Office of Scientific and Technical Information , United States Department of Energy
http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/james_rainwater.html James Rainwater
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1975/rainwater-autobio.html James Rainwater – Autobiography
http://jamesrainwater.net/ Leo James Rainwater
Nobel Prize in Physics Laureates 1951-1975 Persondata | NAME = Rainwater, Leo James | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = December 9, 1917 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Council, Idaho|Council , Idaho | DATE OF DEATH = May 31, 1986 | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Rainwater, Leo James Category:1917 births Category:1986 deaths Category:American Nobel laureates Category:American nuclear physicists Category:American physicists Category:California Institute of Technology alumni Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Manhattan Project people Category:Members of the Optical Society Category:Nobel laureates in Physics Category:People from Adams County, Idaho
