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Isidor Isaac Rabi
Israel Isaac "Isidor" Rabi was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei." He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.
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science · American physicist (1898–1988) · physicist · nuclear physicist · university teacher · theoretical physicist · also Isidor Isaac Rabi, Isidor Rabi, Israel Isaac Rabi, I. I. Rabi, Rabi
Born 29 July 1898 · Died 11 January 1988 · Q165969
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2025· 4 entries
insider.si.edu: Dr. Isidor Isaac Rabi receiving 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Dollars) for the period from September 1927 to June 1928
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Dollars) per month stipend from the Rockefeller Foundation
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Increasing Incidence and Prevalence of the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases With Time, Based on Systematic Review” in Gastroenterology — cited 3,987 times.
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1988· 3 entries
Died 1988-01-11.
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“I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.”
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“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.”
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1985· 2 entries
Won NAS Public Welfare Medal (1985).
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The Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Vannevar Bush Award from the National Science Foundation in 1986
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded I. I. Rabi Award (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Won Oersted Medal (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
February 11, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics
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1967· 3 entries
Won Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1967).
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But remained active in the department and held the title of University Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer until his death
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But remained active in the department and held the title of University Professor Emeritus until his death
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1964· 2 entries
Rabi was the first to receive such a chair
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Rabi was the first to receive that position
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1960· 1 entry
The Niels Bohr International Gold Medal and the Atoms for Peace Award in 1967, the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1982, the Four Freedoms Award from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt
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1959· 1 entry
Was appointed a member of the board of governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
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1957· 1 entry
To seek advice on possible US responses to the Soviet satellite success
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1956· 1 entry
Rabi attended the Project Nobska anti-submarine warfare conference, where discussion ranged from oceanography to nuclear weapons
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1954· 1 entry
That led to Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance
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1952· 3 entries
And Rabi succeeded him as chairman, serving until 1956
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Serving as its chairman from 1956 to 1957
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Representatives of eleven countries came together to create the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN or European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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1950· 3 entries
And a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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The GAC unanimously opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb
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When he was named the United States Delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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1947· 1 entry
A contract was signed with the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which had replaced the Manhattan Project, that established the Brookhaven National Laboratory
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1946· 1 entry
And later, as United States delegate to UNESCO, with the creation of CERN in 1952
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1945· 2 entries
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1945).
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Rabi delivered the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture, held by the American Association of Physics Teachers in honor of Floyd K
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1944· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1944).
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"for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei
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1942· 3 entries
Won Elliott Cresson Medal (1942).
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Robert Oppenheimer attempted to recruit Rabi and Robert Bacher to work at the Los Alamos Laboratory on a new secret project
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The Medal for Merit and the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom from Great Britain in 1948, the officer in the French Legion of Honour in 1956, Columbia University's Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to
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1937· 1 entry
Rabi, Kusch, Millman and Zacharias used it to measure the magnetic moment of several lithium compounds with molecular beams, including lithium chloride, lithium fluoride and dilithium
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1931· 2 entries
Rabi returned to particle beam experiments
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By Urey, who received the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work
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1929· 2 entries
Rabi received an offer of a lectureship from Columbia, with an annual salary of $3,000
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Rabi returned to the United States, where Columbia offered him a faculty position
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1927· 1 entry
Headed for Europe, where he met and worked with many of the finest physicists of the time
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1923· 1 entry
Met, and began courting, Helen Newmark, a summer-semester student at Hunter College
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1922· 1 entry
Rabi returned to Cornell as a graduate chemistry student, and began studying physics
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1917· 1 entry
Joined the Student Army Training Corps at Cornell
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1907· 1 entry
The family moved to Brownsville, Brooklyn, where they ran a grocery store
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1898· 2 entries
In Rymanów, Galicia, into a Polish Orthodox Jewish family
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Born 1898-07-29.
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