Isidor Isaac Rabi By: Kaylee Catlin W4

Background Born in Raymanov, Austria, on July 29, 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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