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James Rainwater proposed that the motion of individual nucleons can favor a nonspherical atomic nucleus. Deforming the core changes the single-particle levels, so an occupied level can lower its energy enough to offset the collective cost of changing shape. This links the nuclear shell model to large measured electric quadrupole moments, which a fixed spherical picture has difficulty explaining. His proposal supplied a physical reason to let particle motion and the shape of the whole nucleus influence one another.[ref]
Background for the Spheroidal Nuclear Model Proposal by James Rainwater. Nobel lecture, pp. 266–267, nuclear deformation, quadrupole moments and distorted single-particle levels
A physicist.[ref]
https://www.columbia.edu/cu/physics/pdf-files/Rainwater.pdf. Independent professional identity
Portrait of James Rainwater
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