Past Member

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Affiliation

Math/NS

From the Nobel Foundation:

His early work was concerned with the magnetic properties of crystals. In 1930 he began studying the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei, developing Stern's molecular beam method to great precision, as a tool for measuring these properties. His apparatus was based on the production of ordinary electromagnetic oscillations of the same frequency as that of the Larmor precession of atomic systems in a magnetic field. By an ingenious application of the resonance principle he succeeded in detecting and measuring single states of rotation of atoms and molecules, and in determining the mechanical and magnetic moments of the nuclei.

"Isidor Isaac Rabi: Biographical," Nobel Foundation (1944)

Nobel Laureate, Physics Prize, 1944

Dates at IAS

Member
Math/NS
Fall

Degrees

Columbia University
Ph.D.
1927

Honors

1944
Nobel Prize in Physics

Appointments

Mem Gen Adv Comm AEC 1946-, chmn 1952-56
chmn sci adv comm ODM 1953-57
Consultant State Dept 1958-
mem Naval Res Adv Comm 1952-
VP Internat Conf on Peaceful Uses Atomic Energy, Geneva, 1955, 1958, 1964
US rep adv comm to Secy Genl UN 1955-
mem NATO Sci Comm 1958
US del UNESCO Conf Florence, Italy 1950
Assoc Ed Phys Rev 1935-38, 1941-44