Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1980 February 11 and 21.
Family background and early childhood; religion; early interest in science; learning Copernican theory; Manual Training high school; Cornell University undergraduate (1915-1919); Student Army Training Corps (1917-1919); tutoring at City College; National Research Council Fellowship (1927), travel to Europe; met Linus Pauling, Arnold Sommerfeld, Edward Condon, Howard Percy Robertson, Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Edwin Schrodinger, Hans Bethe, Rudolf Peierls, Otto Stern; Columbia University lecturer; physics research at Columbia University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1940- ).
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.
Bethe, Hans A, (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Condon, Edward Uhler, 1902-1974.
Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994
Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958.
Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995
Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988
Robertson, H. P. (Howard Percy), 1903-1961
Schrd̲inger, Erwin, 1887-1961
Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951.
Stern, Otto, 1888-1969-
Columbia University. Dept. of Physics -- Faculty.
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