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James Rainwater 1917-86, American physicist, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. After working on the Manhattan Project as a student during World War II, he became a professor of physics at Columbia in 1952. His theory that not all atomic nuclei are spherical was verified experimentally by Danish physicists Aage N. Bohr and Benjamin R. Mottelson . For their work the three researchers shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. Rainwater also received the Atomic Energy Commission's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize for Physics in 1963.

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Bohr, Aage Niels (1922– ) Danish physicist, son of Niels Bohr. With Benjamin Mottelson and James Rainwater, Bohr shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in physics for devising a “collective model” of the atomic nucleus that assumes the collective vibration of all nucleons and their individual motion.

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