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I. I. Rabi

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Dates

July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988

Authorized Form of Name

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988

Additional Forms of Names

Rabi, I. I.

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-

Rabi, Isidor I., 1898-1988

Rabi, Isidor Isaac

Rabi, Isidor Isaac, 1898-1988

Biography

Abstract

Physicist at Columbia University from 1929, becoming Professor of Physics in 1937. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his work in magnetic resonance.

Important Dates

July 29, 1898Birth in Rymanów, Austria-Hungary, Rymanów (Poland).

1919Obtained B.Chem., Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).

1922Attended Cornell University for graduate school before transferring to Columbia University, Ithaca (N.Y.).

1927Obtained Ph.D. in physics, Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).

1927 – 1928Barnard Fellow at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich and University of Hamburg.

1928 – 1929International Education Board Fellow at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, University of Munich, University of Copenhagen, University of Hamburg, and University of Leipzig.

1929 – 1988Lecturer (1929-30); Assistant Professor (1930-35); Associate Professor (1935-37); Professor of Physics (1937-51); Chair, Department of Physics (1945-49); Higgins Professor of Physics (1951-64); University Professor (1964-67); and Emeritus University Professor (1967-88), Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).

1938 – 1939Member, Institute for Advanced Study.

1939Consultant, Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, United States Army.

1940Elected member, National Academy of Sciences.

1940 – 1945Researcher, Cavity Magnetron Development Group (1940-42); Nonresident Director, Columbia University Satellite (1942-45); and Associate Director (1942-45), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory.

1942Received the Elliot Cresson Medal, Franklin Institute.

1942 – 1945Consultant, Manhattan Project.

1942 – 1945Chair, Vacuum Tube Development Committee, National Defense Research Committee, Office of Scientific Research and Development.

1944Received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.

1946 – 1947Chair, Policy Council, Joint Research and Development Board.

1946 – 1949Member, Council, National Academy of Sciences.

1947 – 1956Member (1947-56) and Chair (1952-56), General Advisory Committee, United States Atomic Energy Commission.

1948Received the King's Medal from the United Kingdom.

1948Received the U.S. Medal for Merit.

1950President, American Physical Society (APS).

1950Member, Committee to Explore the Role of Science in Foreign Relations, National Academy of Sciences.

1950 – 1953United States Delegate to the General Assembly (1950) and Member, United States National Committee (1950-53), UNESCO.

1952Named Commander, Order of the Southern Cross in Brazil.

1952 – 1957Member (1952-57) and Chair (1956-57), Science Advisory Committee, United States Office of Defense Mobilization.

1955Vice President, Advisory Committee, United Nations International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva.

1955 – 1956Moeb Lecturer, Harvard University.

1956Named Officer, Legion of Honor in France.

1957 – 1961Member, President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

1958Vice President, Advisory Committee, Second United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva.

1961 – 1962President (1961-62) and Chair, Board of Trustees (1962-63), Associated Universities, Inc.

1964Received the Priestley Memorial Award.

1967Received the Atoms for Peace Award.

January 11, 1988Death, New York (N.Y.).

Occupation

Nuclear physicist.

Places

Birth

Rymanów (Poland)

Undergraduate Education

Ithaca (N.Y.)

Graduate Education

Ithaca (N.Y.)

New York (N.Y.)

Employment

New York (N.Y.)

Death

New York (N.Y.)

Subjects

Lasers.

Magnetic resonance imaging.

Nuclear energy.

Physics -- Study and teaching.

Radar.

Radiation.

Relationships

People

Family

Newmark, Helen

Wife, married in 1926.

Rabi, Margaret Joella

Daughter.

Rabi, Nancy Elizabeth

Daughter.

Advisors & Collaborators

Bohr, Aage

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University.

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

PhD advisor at University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet).

Hughes, Vernon W.

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University, "The Radiofrequency Spectrum of (RUBIDIUM-85-LABELED) Rubidium-Fluoride and (RUBIDIUM-87-LABELED)-RUBIDIUM Fluoride by the Electric Resonance Method,” and both employed at Columbia University.

Nierenberg, William Aaron, 1919-2000

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University and both employed at Columbia University.

Perl, Martin L., 1927-2014

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University, "The nuclear electric quadrupole moment of sodium-23 by an atomic beam resonance method."

Ramsey, Norman, 1915-2011

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University. Both employed at Columbia University.

Schwinger, Julian, 1918-1994

Advised by Rabi at Columbia University on the magnetic scattering of neutrons.

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

Post-doc advisor at University of Munich.

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969

Post-doc advisor at University of Hamburg.

Wills, A .P.

PhD advisor at Columbia University on the principal magnetic susceptibilities of crystals.

Colleagues

Anderson, Herbert Lawrence

Both employed at Columbia University.

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

Both employed at Columbia University.

Boehm, Felix

Both employed at Columbia University.

Booth, Eugene

Both employed at Columbia University.

Brillouin, Léon, 1889-1969

Both employed at Columbia University.

Brown, Harold, 1927-2019

Both employed at Columbia University.

Christ, Norman

Both employed at Columbia University.

Commins, Eugene D.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Cummins, Herman Z., 1933-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958

Both employed at Columbia University.

Devons, Samuel

Both employed at Columbia University.

Dryden, Hugh L. (Hugh Latimer), 1898-1965

Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.

DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.

Dunning, John R. (John Ray), 1907-1975

Both employed at Columbia University.

Feinberg, Gerald, 1933-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Both employed at Columbia University.

Foley, Henry Michael, 1917-1982

Both employed at Columbia University.

Frosch, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1928-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Goldhaber, Gerson

Both employed at Columbia University.

Guth, Alan H.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Happer, William, 1939-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Henley, Ernest M.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Javan, Ali, 1926-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Both employed at Columbia University.

Kinoshita, T. (Toichiro)

Both employed at Columbia University.

Kistiakowsky, George B. (George Bogdan), 1900-1982

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Kraichnan, Robert H., 1928-2008

Both employed at Columbia University.

Kroll, Norman Myles, 1922-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Kusch, Polykarp, 1911-1993

Both employed at Columbia University.

Lamb, Willis E. (Willis Eugene), 1913-2008

Both employed at Columbia University.

Lederman, Leon M.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007

Both employed at Columbia University.

Luttinger, Joaquin M.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Mandelstam, Stanley

Both employed at Columbia University.

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

Both employed at Columbia University.

Nagamiya, S. (Shoji)

Both employed at Columbia University.

Novick, Robert

Both employed at Columbia University.

Nygren, David R.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958

Both employed at Columbia University.

Pekeris, C. L. (Chaim Leib), 1908-1993

Both employed at Columbia University.

Peoples, John, Jr.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Piore, Emanuel Ruben, 1908-2000

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Press, Frank, 1924-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Purcell, Edward M.

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Rainwater, L. James (Leo James), 1917-1986

Both employed at Columbia University.

Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Ruderman, Malvin A.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Sachs, Allan M. (Allan Maxwell), 1921-1989

Both employed at Columbia University.

Samios, Nicholas P.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999

Both employed at Columbia University.

Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006

Both employed at Columbia University.

Sciulli, Frank J.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Serber, R. (Robert)

Both employed at Columbia University.

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

Both employed at the Radiation Laboratory during World War II.

Steinberger, J.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Szilard, Leo

Both employed at Columbia University.

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Both employed at Columbia University.

Thomas, Llewellyn Hilleth, 1903-1992

Both employed at Columbia University.

Ting, S. C. C. (Samuel Chao-chung), 1936-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Townes, Charles H.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Waterman, Alan Tower, 1892-1967

Both worked at United States Office of Defense Mobilization.

Weinberg, Alvin Martin, 1915-2006

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Weinberg, Erick J.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Weinberg, Steven, 1933-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Wick, G. C. (Gian Carlo)

Both employed at Columbia University.

Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Wilson, Robert R., 1914-2000

Both employed at Columbia University.

Wu, C. S. (Chien-shiung), 1912-1997

Both employed at Columbia University.

York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank)

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC).

Zacharias, Jerrold Reinach, 1905-1986

Both worked on President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) and United States Office of Defense Mobilization.

Additional

Anshen, Ruth Nanda

Bainbridge, Kenneth T. (Kenneth Tompkins), 1904-1996

Beckler, David Z., 1918-

Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005

Bloch, Felix, 1905-

Bloembergen, N.

Born, Max, 1882-1970

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Bryant, John H.

Buck, Paul Herman, 1899-1978

Burbidge, Geoffrey R.

Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978

Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974

Corngold, Noel Robert David, 1929-

Darrow, Karl K. (Karl Kelchner), 1891-

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Dicke, Robert H. (Robert Henry)

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Feld, Bernard Taub, 1919-

Ford, Kenneth William, 1926-

Frisch, Otto Robert, 1904-

Goldhaber, Maurice, 1911-2011

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Gould, Gordon, 1920-2005

Grosse, Aristid von, 1905-1985

Havens, William W. (William Westerfield), 1920-2004

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995

Kemble, Edwin C. (Edwin Crawford), 1889-

Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958

Manley, John Henry, 1907-

Marshak, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1916-1992

Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953

Millman, S. (Sidney), 1904-2006

Morrison, Philip

Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-

Oliver, J. E. (Jack Ertle), 1923-2011

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

Pines, David, 1924-2018

Pound, Robert V.

Ridenour, Louis N. (Louis Nicot), 1911-1959

Rigden, John S.

Rohrlich, F.

Rosenberg, Paul, 1910-1999

Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961

Schwarzschild, Martin

Smith, Cyril Stanley, 1903-1992

Strauss, Lewis L.

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

White, Addison Hughson, 1909-

Wien, W. (Wilhelm), 1864-1928

Institutions

Major Positions

Columbia University. Department of Physics

Received Ph.D. Lecturer; Assistant Professor; Associate Professor; Professor of Physics; Chair, Department of Physics; Higgins Professor of Physics; University Professor; and Emeritus University Professor.

Harvard University. Department of Physics

Moeb Lecturer.

International Education Board

Fellow.

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Consultant.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Radiation Laboratory

Researcher, Cavity Magnetron Development Group; Nonresident Director, Columbia University Satellite; and Associate Director.

U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory

Consultant.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Institute of Physics

American Philosophical Society

American Physical Society

President.

Associated Universities, Inc.

President and Chair, Board of Trustees.

Cornell University

Received B.Chem. and attended for one semester of graduate school.

Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Barnard Fellow and International Education Board Fellow.

Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)

Københavns universitet

International Education Board Fellow.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Council member. Member, Committee to Explore the Role of Science in Foreign Relations.

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Member and Chair, General Advisory Committee.

Unesco

United States Delegate to the General Assembly and Member, United States National Committee.

United Nations

Vice President, Advisory Committee, International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.

United States. Joint Research and Development Board

Chair, Policy Council.

United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee

Chair, Vacuum Tube Development Committee.

United States. President's Science Advisory Committee

Member.

United States. Science Advisory Committee

Member and Chair.

Universität Hamburg

Barnard Fellow and International Education Board Fellow.

Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)

International Education Board Fellow.

Universität München

International Education Board Fellow.

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

After-dinner speech before the American Physical Society [sound recording], 1967 November 17.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Bicentennial session on the history of pioneering American physicists [sound recording] / 1976 April 28.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Gregory Breit Symposium [sound recording], 1968 May 3.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

How well we meant [videorecording], 1983.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

I. I. Rabi papers, 1899-1989 (bulk 1945-1968).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

Isidor Rabi letter of assessment of John Rigden, 1987.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Karl Taylor Compton lectures [sound recording], 1962.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Letters to NBS staff on "Atomic Energy Levels," 1949-1971.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Nobel laureates on scientific research project : oral history, 1964.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

Oral history interview with I. I. Rabi, 1963 December 8.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Physical Science Study Committee records, circa 1958-1971

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Press conference on the nuclear test ban treaty [sound recording], 1962.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Pupin lecture [sound recording]. 1966 May 13.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Pupin lecture: Physics colloquium, 1966.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Radiation Laboratory Reunion [sound recording], 1976 November.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Radio interview with I. I. Rabi by Philip Kotlar on WNYC [sound recording] / 1971 August 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1962.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1964.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi : oral history, 1985.

Oral History Research Office

Columbia University

Box 20, Room 801 Butler Library, New York, NY 10027, USA

University of Washington closed circuit television physics lecture series [motion picture], circa 1967.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Subject

Atoms for Peace Award records, 1944-1972.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Bergen Davis papers, 1898-1960.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Columbia University

Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA

Bernard Feld papers, 1943-1990.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Columbia University Department of Physics records, 1870-1983 (bulk 1940-1970).

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Columbia University

Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA

Conference notes prepared informally and unofficially by John A. Wheeler, 1948.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Conversations with David Inglis, [videorecording] Feb.-May 1989.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Dwight D. Eisenhower papers as President of the United States, 1953-1961.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

Abilene, KS 67410, USA

Edward Condon papers, circa 1920-1974.

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

Fritz Rohrlich notes from the Pocono Conference on Physics, 1948.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Hans Bethe papers, circa 1931-1992.

Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Cornell University

2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

History of physics audio-visual collection, circa 1918-1996, 1960-1988 (bulk)

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

International congress for nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and cosmic radiation [motion picture] / photographed by Heinrich Medicus.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Interview transcripts, 1966-1986.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Jerrold R. Zacharias papers, 1912-1986.

Institute Archives and Special Collections

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

John Bryant collection.

Archives

Historical Electronics Museum, Inc.

P. O. Box 746, M.S. 4015, Baltimore, MD 21203, USA

Lee A. DuBridge papers, 1932-1986.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Lewis L. Strauss papers, 1914-1974.

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library

West Branch, IA 52358, USA

Louis N. Ridenour papers, 1946-1959.

University Archives

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1408 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA

Norman Ramsey materials on the history of magnetic resonance, 1983-1995.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

On being a student of Norman Ramsey, 2017.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview Addison Hughson White, 1976 September 30.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Aristid Victor Grosse, 1974 January 11 and April 5.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Arthur L. Schawlow, 1984 January 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1979 June 18 and 20.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Charles H. Townes, 1987 May 20 and 21.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Cyril Stanley Smith, 1976 September 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Cyril Stanley Smith, 1976 September 23. Metallurgy and atomic energy policy: typescript (photocopy), 1980.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with David Pines, 1981 April 13 and 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with David Z. Beckler, 2001 August 22 and December 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Edward M. Purcell, 1991 June 14.

IEEE History Center

Rutgers University

39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Oral history interview with Edward Mills Purcell, 1977 June 8 and 14.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Felix Bloch, 1968 August 15.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Foster Cary Nix, 1975 June 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Geoffrey Burbidge, 1977 October 21.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with George Eugene Uhlenbeck, 1962 March 30, 31, April 5, May 10 and 1963 December 9.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Gerson Goldhaber, 2005 June 22, 23, 24, 2006 February 27, 28 and March 1.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Gordon Gould, 1983 April 8 and October 23.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Herbert Anderson, 1981 January 13 and 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Jack E. Oliver, 1996 March 8 and 1997 September 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Clarke Slater, 1970 February 23 and August 7.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Henry Manley, 1976 July 9 and 11.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with John Henry Manley, 1976 July 9 and 11.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA, 94720-6000, USA

Oral history interview with Karl K. Darrow, 1964 April 2 and 10 June.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Kenneth Bainbridge, 1991 June 10.

IEEE History Center

Rutgers University

39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Oral history interview with Leon Lederman, 2002 August 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Martin Schwarzschild, 1977 March 10, June 3, December 16 and 1979 July 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Maurice Goldhaber, 1967 January 10.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Nicolaas Bloembergen, 1983 June 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Noel R. Corngold, 2002 October 11 and 16.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

1201 East California Blvd. (Mail Code 015A-74), Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Oral history interview with Norman F. Ramsey, 1991 June 20.

IEEE History Center

Rutgers University

39 Union Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA

Oral history interview with Norman M. Kroll, 1987 March 29.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1960 July 19 to August 4.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1978 December 19, 1979 January 5 and 18.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Norman Ramsey, 1982 June 24.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Otto Robert Frisch, 1963 May 8.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Paul Buck, 1977 March 2.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral history interview with Philip Morrison, 1967 February 7.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral History interview with Robert Alan Frosch, 1981 July 10, 23, August 19, September 15 and October 6.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1981, 1983.

Institute Archives

California Institute of Technology

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Oral History interview with Robert F. Bacher, 1986 February 13.

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Oral history interview with Robert Marshak, 1970 June 15, 16, September 19, and October 4.

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Oral history interview with Robert V. Pound, 1976 November 30.

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Oral history interview with Robert V. Pound, 2006 September 23, November 4, 18, 2007 February 19 and April 22.

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Oral history interview with Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, 1963 December 5 and 7.

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Oral history interview with Sidney Millman, 1974 August 2, September 13 and 1975 August 21.

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Oral history interview with William W. Havens, 1991 February 21, July 17, 29, Augut 5, 12 and 14.

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American Institute of Physics

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Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1973 May 15 and 1974 March 6 and June 3.

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Outtakes and candid footage from the production of : The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.

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Paul Rosenberg papers, 1934-1953 (bulk 1936-1940).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

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President's Science Advisory Committee records, 1957-1961.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Library

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Remarks by Willis E. Lamb in a telephone conversation with Ken Ford, 1994.

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Robert H. Dicke response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.

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Ruth N. Anshen papers, 1938-1986.

Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Columbia University

Butler Library, 6th Floor East, New York, NY 10027, USA

Text materials for documentary film: The world of Enrico Fermi, circa 1930-1968.

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The Princeton years and beyond, 1930-1940: Invited paper for the March 1992 meeting of the American Physical Society, 1992.

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The world of Enrico Fermi [motion picture].

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Videotaped interviews for documentary, Reflections of Einstein,

In Walter Glickman's possession

Long Island University, Brooklyn Center

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Published Resources

Author

A Festschrift for I. I. Rabi / [Lloyd Motz, editor].

A tribute to Professor I.I. Rabi on the occasion of his retirement from Columbia University : a collection of papers and addresses delivered at the symposium in Pupin Laboratories on 23 May, 1967.

Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Pupin Laboratories / Columbia University.

My life and times as a physicist / [two lectures] Foreword by Joseph B. Platt.

Nuclear physics / by Enrico Fermi [et al.].

Oppenheimer / I. I. Rabi ... [et al. ]

Science: the center of culture [by] I. I. Rabi.

Subject

A celebration of thanksgiving for the life of I. I. Rabi.

I. I. Rabi Physics Today obituary

Rabi, scientist and citizen / John S. Rigden.