James Rainwater
James Rainwater · Science & Medicine
Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for the structure of atomic nuclei
1917, Council, Idaho, United States — 1986, Yonkers, New York, United States
United States
James Rainwater is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for the structure of atomic nuclei
Rainwater proposed in 1950 that atomic nuclei need not be spherical but can take on deformed shapes, a hypothesis confirmed experimentally by Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson, with whom he shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. He spent his career at Columbia University and also contributed to the Manhattan Project during the war. He is sometimes listed among Jewish laureates, but no Jewish ancestry is documented for him in reliable biographical sources.
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Nobel laureate in physics (1975) for the structure of atomic nuclei
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Prize winners in Physics
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