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James Rainwater

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Gender Male
Death37 years ago
Date of birth December 9,1917
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Born Council
Idaho
United States
Date of died May 31,1986
DiedNew 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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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.

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