Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 - January 11, 1988) was an American physicist of Austro-Hungarian origin. July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII in Roman) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ...

Rabi was born in Rymanów, Austria, (now in Poland), and was brought to the United States as a child the following year. He achieved a Bachelor of Chemistry degree from Cornell University in 1919, continuing his studies at Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in 1927. Rabi received a Sc.D from Bates College in 1977. Rymanów is a town in Poland. ... Cornell University is a research university whose main campus is located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York, and whose two medical campuses are located in New York City and in Education City, Qatar, near Doha. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Bates College is a private liberal arts college, founded in 1855, located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. ...

In 1930 Rabi conducted investigations into the nature of the force binding protons to atomic nuclei. This research eventually led to the creation of the molecular-beam magnetic-resonance detection method, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1940 he was granted leave from Columbia to work as Associate Director of the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the development of radar. He reluctantly agreed to serve as a visiting consultant who would come and go from Los Alamos, where he was one of the very few exceptions to the strict security rules there. General Groves made a special effort to bring Rabi, who had been a student with Oppenheimer and maintained a close and mutually respectful relationship, out to Los Alamos for the days leading up to the Trinity test so that he could help Oppenheimer maintain his sanity under such intense pressure. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... M*A*S*H , see Corporal Walter (Radar) OReilly. ... Los Alamos National Laboratory, aerial view from 1995. ...

After the war he continued his research, which contributed to the inventions of the laser and the atomic clock. He was also one of the founders of Brookhaven National Laboratory and the organization known as CERN. He died on January 11, 1988. Aerial view of Brookhaven National Laboratory. ... CERN logo CERN is the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Organization for Nuclear Research ), the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated on the border between France and Switzerland, just west of Geneva. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII in Roman) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He famously remarked that "the world would be better without an Edward Teller." Edward Teller in 1958 as Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ...

See also

• Atomic clock
• Nuclear magnetic resonance
• Rabi cycle
• Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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External links

• Isidor Isaac Rabi
• Rabi biography