Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898-1988)

Awarded the Prize “for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.”

American physicist. Rabi was born at Raymanov in Austria on July 29, 1898. He was brought to the United States in 1899 educated at Cornell (graduating in 1919) Columbia where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1927. After two years in Europe he returned to Columbia, where he spent his whole career, being appointed Professor of Physics in 1937 the first University Professor in 1964. He became President of the American Physical Society in 1950. He was also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts Sciences. Rabi died in New York on January 11, 1988.