James Rainwater Professions : Physicist Born : December 9, 1917 Died : May 31, 1986 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by James Rainwater In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics. James Rainwater chemistry physics school 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 suggestions triumph understanding My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. James Rainwater influenza epidemics father The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting. James Rainwater neutrons nucleus research Similar Authors Gabriel Lippmann physicist Burton Richter physicist Bruno Rossi physicist Bruce Maccabee physicist Brian Cox physicist Allan McLeod Cormack physicist All Authors