“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”
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist known for research on atomic nuclei. He shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics 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. He was affiliated with Columbia University when awarded.
- Field
- Physics · Nuclear Physics
- Lifespan
- 1917–1986