biography
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Rainwater, (Leo) James
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| (1917–86)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Council, Idaho, USA. He studied at the California Institute of Technology and Columbia University, and contributed to the Manhattan Project on the atomic bomb during World War 2. He became professor of physics at Columbia University and was director of the Nevis Cyclotron Laboratory there (1951–3, 1956–61). He unified two theoretical models of the atomic nucleus, and shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1975 with Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson. |
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