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Leo James Rainwater

nobel prize for physics


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Leo James Rainwater
Full Name
of the recipient		Leo James Rainwater
AwardNobel Prize in Physics
Year of Award1975
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withAage Niels Bohr (33.3%)
Ben Roy Mottelson (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Place of BirthCouncil, ID, United States USA
Date of Birth9 December 1917
Age
at the time of Award		57 years
Place of DeathYonkers, NY, United States USA
Date of Death31 March 1986
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