James Rainwater receives a share of the physics prize for work on the structure of atomic nuclei. He proposed that nuclei could have nonspherical shapes, an insight developed further in theories of collective nuclear motion.
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James Rainwater
Nobel Prize history for James Rainwater based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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