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James Rainwater

1917 - 1986

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Leo James Rainwater (December 9, 1917 – May 31, 1986) was an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 for his part in determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei. During World War II, he worked on the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. In 1949, he began developing his theory that, contrary to what was then believed, not all atomic nuclei are spherical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Rainwater has received more than 130,744 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). James Rainwater is the 181st most popular physicist (down from 167th in 2019), the 660th most popular biography from United States (up from 713th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Physicist.

James Rainwater is most famous for his research on the effects of the Great Depression on American families.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Rainwater ranks 181 out of 851. Before him are Emilio Segrè, Polykarp Kusch, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Martin Lewis Perl, Alexander Prokhorov, and Satyendra Nath Bose. After him are Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Igor Tamm, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Klaus von Klitzing, and Charles H. Townes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, James Rainwater ranks 19. Before him are Anthony Burgess, Ernest Borgnine, Christian de Duve, Sidney Sheldon, Joan Clarke, and Kenan Evren. After him are Otto Günsche, Joan Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Melville, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Robert Mitchum, and Algirdas Julien Greimas. Among people deceased in 1986, James Rainwater ranks 23. Before him are Celâl Bayar, Jaroslav Seifert, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cary Grant, and Albert Szent-Györgyi. After him are Fritz Albert Lipmann, Erich Koch, Samora Machel, Alva Myrdal, Dmitry Kabalevsky, and Stanley Rous.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Rainwater ranks 660 out of 20,380. Before him are Matthew C. Perry (1794), John Glenn (1921), Billy Graham (1918), Joe Louis (1914), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), and Michael Crichton (1942). After him are Dolly Parton (1946), George Peppard (1928), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Bill Bixby (1934), David Copperfield (1956), and Laura Branigan (1952).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, James Rainwater ranks 24. Before him are Arthur Compton (1892), Hugh Everett III (1930), Melvin Schwartz (1932), George E. Smith (1930), Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921), and Martin Lewis Perl (1927). After him are Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839), Charles H. Townes (1915), David Bohm (1992), Benjamin Thompson (1753), Robert H. Goddard (1882), and Douglas Osheroff (1945).

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