James Rainwater
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 38 years ago |
Date of birth | December 9,1917 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Council |
Idaho | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 31,1986 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Academic advisors | Enrico Fermi |
John R. Dunning | |
Job | Physicist |
Education | Columbia University |
California Institute of Technology | |
Awards | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award |
Nobel Prize in Physics | |
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ID | 569731 |
James Rainwater Life story
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. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs.