James Rainwater — American Scientist born on December 09, 1917, died on May 31, 1986

Leo James Rainwater 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... (wikipedia)

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and 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.