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Isidor Isaac Rabi ( / ˈrɑːbi /; born Israel Isaac Rabi, July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ).
After three years in non-scientific occupation, he started postgraduate studies in physics at Cornell in 1921, which he later continued at Columbia University. In 1927 he received his Ph.D. degree for work on the magnetic properties of crystals.
Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of observing atomic spectra.
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Nov 1, 1999 · When Rabi became a lecturer at Columbia, the frontiers of physics were formed by the work of European physicists. By the early 1930s American physics was in the ascendancy and Rabi’s work was at the forefront.
Jun 27, 2018 · The American physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988) pioneered in the development of precision atomic-and nuclear-beam measurements. Isidor Rabi was born on July 29, 1898, in Rymanov in what was then Austria-Hungary.
During World War II, Rabi took part in development of the atomic bomb. After the war he promoted peace and the limiting of nuclear weapons. He also played a significant role in establishing major research laboratories in Brookhaven and CERN.
Jan 12, 1988 · Isidor Isaac Rabi, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who played a key role in the wartime development of the atomic bomb and radar, died Monday after a long illness.
