Isidor Isaac Rabi

By: Kaylee Catlin W4

Background

• Born in Raymanov, Austria, on July 29, 1898.• Brought to United States by family in 1899.

Education

• He graduated Bachelor of Chemistry at Cornell University

• Started postgraduate studies in physics at Cornell 1921

• Continued at Columbia University 1927 received his PhD

• degree for work on magnetic properties of crystals

Facts-

• was concerned with the magnetic properties of crystals

• Stern's molecular beam method to great precision

• published his most important papers in The Physical Review

• 1939 he received the Prize of the American Association

Facts-

• He was awarded the Medal for Merit• Honorary D. Sc. of Princeton Harvard and

Birmingham• Is a member of the American Physical Society

• research eventually led to the creation of the molecular beam magnetic resonance

• was chairman of the general advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission

• helped in the development of radar

he was one of the founders of the Brookhaven National Laboratory

also built up the world's finest physics departments at Columbia University

• measuring the spin of the protons in the atoms core

• precise measurements to atomic clock the maser and the laser

• During the war Rabi worked on the development of microwave radar

• he obtained his doctoral degree

• He was executive officer of the physics department at Columbia

• He was the first to propose the joint European laboratory

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