Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin.
Rabi was born in Rymanów, now in Poland, at the time in Austria-Hungary, and was brought to the US as a child the following year. He achieved a Bachelor of Chemistry degree from Cornell University in 1919, continuing his studies at Columbia University.
Rabi won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei".
He famously remarked that "the world would be better without an Edward Teller." Template:Physics-stub See also:
- Atomic clock
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Rabi cycle
- Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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