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Leo Rainwater

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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
Occupations physicistnuclear physicistuniversity teacher
Aliases James RainwaterLeo James RainwaterLeo RainwaterLeo RainwaterLeo James RainwaterJames Rainwater

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