Isidor Rabi
| Nummer | B457 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | Isidor Rabi portrait photograph. |
| Bemærkning | Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898 -1988) was an American physicist. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University, where he researched the magnetic properties of crystals. He went on to spend two years in Europe, where he researched with scientists including Arnold Sommerfeld, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Otto Stern, and Werner Heisenberg. Rabi returned to the United States to become a professor at Columbia University.
During World War II, Rabi worked as Associate Director of the Radiation Laboratory at MIT where he researched radar. Having rejected J. Robert Oppenheimer’s offer to make him deputy director of the Manhattan Project, Rabi agreed to serve as a consultant for the project and made occasional trips to work at Los Alamos. He was present for the Trinity Test on July 16, 1945. Rabi received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei." After the war, Rabi returned to Columbia where he became the executive officer of the Physics Department. |
| Periode | 1960 - 1970 |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
