Rabi, Scientist and Citizen

Download or read book Rabi, Scientist and Citizen written by John S. Rigden and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigden's biography of I. I. Rabi, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century, is now reissued with a new Preface. Rabi's discovery of the magnetic resonance method won him the Nobel Prize in 1944 and stimulated refinements in quantum electrodynamics, molecular beam methods, radio astronomy, atomic clocks, and solid state masers.