Leo James Rainwater (1917-1986) was an American physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. In 1949 he proposed, against the prevailing consensus, that atomic nuclei are not always spherical, a theory later confirmed experimentally by Aage Bohr and Ben Mottelson, and for which the three shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. He spent most of his academic career at Columbia University.
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Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917, May 31, 1986) 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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