James Rainwater
American physicist
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Physics Nobel laureate who figured out that atomic nuclei weren't perfect spheres but lumpy and asymmetrical—work that earned him the 1975 prize alongside Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson.
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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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