Rabi: Scientist and Citizen

Rabi: Scientist and Citizen

by JRigden (Author)

Synopsis

This is a welcome reissue with a new Preface of John Rigden's stellar biography of I.I. Rabi, one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Rabi's discovery of the magnetic resonance method won him the Nobel Prize in 1944 and stimulated research leading to, among other things, refinements in quantum electrodynamics, refined molecular beam methods, radio astronomy with the hydrogen 21-cm line, atomic clocks and solid state lasers.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Nov 2000

ISBN 10: 0674004353
ISBN 13: 9780674004351

Media Reviews
Rabi's life was remarkable, full of incident, vision and action, including war, hot and cold. The biography is a masterpiece, rich in anecdote and never losing the narrative drive. New Scientist John Rigden's biography of Isidor Rabi, the American physicist and Nobel prizewinner--for the development of nuclear magnetic resonance--and eventually 'statesman' of science, has been reissued in paperback. Rabi's life was remarkable, full of incident, vision and action, including war, hot and cold. The biography is a masterpiece, rich in anecdote and never losing the narrative drive. New Scientist 20001216
Author Bio
John Rigden is Adjunct Professor of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis.