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James Rainwater
American
Scientist
About the author
The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
James Rainwater,
American
Scientist
#Research
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.
James Rainwater,
American
Scientist
#School
#Physics
#Mathematics
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.
James Rainwater,
American
Scientist
#Belief
#Understanding
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
James Rainwater,
American
Scientist
#Father