| James Rainwater  AKA Leo James Rainwater
Born: 9-Dec-1917
Birthplace: Council, ID
Died: 31-May-1986
Location of death: Yonkers, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Determined shapes of nuclei Father: (civil engineer, d. 1918 influenza pandemic)
Father: George Fowler (stepfather)
Wife: Emma Louise Smith (m. 1942, three sons, one daughter)
Son: James
Son: Robert
Son: William
Daughter: Elizabeth Ann (d. while young)
University: California Institute of Technology
University: PhD, Columbia University (1946)
Professor: Physics, Columbia University (1952-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1975 (with Aage N. Bohr and Ben R. Mottelson)
E. O. Lawrence Award 1963
American Physical Society
IEEE
American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Academy of Sciences
Optical Society of America
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