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Leo Rainwater
Leo Rainwater (English: Leo Rainwater, December 9, 1917 - May 31, 1986) was an American physicist. In 1975, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Auger Bohr and Ben Mortensen for discovering the connection between collective motion and particle motion in the atomic nucleus, and developing a theory about the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection.
- Category
- Scientists
- Nationality
- United States
- Born
- 1917-12-09
- Died
- 1986-05-31
- Wikidata
- Q190745