Isidor Isaac Rabi

@Columbia University, Birthday and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Poland-born American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 American Columbia University Cornell University Scientists Physicists Leo Celebrities Isidor Isaac Rabi was a Poland-born American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of a method by which the magnetic moments, namely the spin and magnetic characteristics of atomic nuclei, could be measured. This measurement technique became a basis for subsequent experiments on atomic beams which lead to the development of a body scanning method used in medical practice known as ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging’ or MRI. The method was also used for experiments on the guidance systems of missiles and satellites. His experiments on ‘Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)’ became an indispensable tool for chemists while ‘Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)’ became an indispensable tool for physicians. He also proposed the construction of the first atomic clock in history. Isidor was destined to become a tailor like his father had he stayed back in Europe but was able to earn a degree in chemistry after coming to America. He worked for many years in an industrial laboratory after which he joined college to study physics as chemistry did not seem interesting to him. He also studied books on various topics which widened the horizon of his knowledge helping him suggest new ways of carrying out experiments which benefited both chemists and physicists.

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Birthday: July 29, 1898 Died on: January 11, 1988 Nationality: American Famous: Columbia University, Cornell University, Scientists, Physicists Spouses: Helen Newmark Known as: Israel Isaac Rabi Childrens: Margaret, Nancy Information Detail Birthday July 29, 1898 Died on January 11, 1988 Nationality American Famous Columbia University, Cornell University, Scientists, Physicists Spouses Helen Newmark Known as Israel Isaac Rabi Childrens Margaret, Nancy Universities Columbia University,Cornell University Cornell University Columbia University Notable Alumnis Columbia University Cornell University Birth Place Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland) Gender Male Father David Rabi Mother Janet Teig Sun Sign Leo Born in Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland) Famous as Physicist Died at Age 89

Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland)

Isidor Isaac Rabi born at Unsplash Birth Place

He married Helen Newmark on August 17, 1926 and had two daughters, Nancy and Margaret with her. Unsplash Personal Life

Isidor Isaac Rabin died of illness in New York City, New York, USA on January 11, 1988 at the age of 89. Unsplash Personal Life

Isidor Isaac Rabi was born Israel Isaac Rabi in Rymanow, Poland, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on July 29, 1898. His father was a Jewish tailor named David Rabi and his mother was Janet Teig. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He had a younger sister named Getrude. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

His family immigrated to America in 1899 when he was an infant. His family stayed in Lower East side of Manhattan and later in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After completing elementary school in Brooklyn, where his name was changed to Isidor, he joined ‘Manual Training High School, Brooklyn’. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He got a scholarship and joined the ‘Cornell University’ at Ithaca, New York where he opted for electrical engineering as a major subject but later changed over to chemistry. He graduated with a BS in chemistry from the university in 1919. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Isidor Isaac Rabi started his career as a lecturer in ‘Theoretical Physics’ from 1929 to 1937. Unsplash Career

In 1933 Rabi and Victor W. Cohen, his first graduate student, were able to measure the nuclear spin of sodium with their molecular beam apparatus. Unsplash Career

In 1936 he carried out the second experiment on proton and deuteron and was able to reduce uncertainty in their magnetic moments drastically. Unsplash Career

In 1937 he became a Professor of ‘Theoretical Physics’ at the Columbia University and held the post till 1940. Unsplash Career

His third experiment in 1939 reduced the uncertainty to 0.7 percent which was very accurate by all standards. Unsplash Career

Isodor Isaac Rabi’s book ‘The Nuclear Spin of Sodium’ was published in 1933 and ‘The Magnetic Moment of the Proton’ in 1934. Unsplash Major Works

His book ‘On the Process of Space Quantization’ was published in 1936 and ‘A New Method of Measuring Nuclear Magnetic Moment’ was published in 1938. Unsplash Major Works

‘An Electric Quadrupole Moment of the Deuteron: The Radiofrequency Spectra of HD and D2 Molecules in a Magnetic Field’ was published in 1940 and ‘The Hyperfine Structure of Atomic Hydrogen and Deuterium’ was published in 1947. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	July 29, 1898
Died on	January 11, 1988
Nationality	American
Famous	Columbia University, Cornell University, Scientists, Physicists
Spouses	Helen Newmark
Known as	Israel Isaac Rabi
Childrens	Margaret, Nancy
Universities	Columbia University,Cornell University Cornell University Columbia University
Notable Alumnis	Columbia University Cornell University
Birth Place	Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland)
Gender	Male
Father	David Rabi
Mother	Janet Teig
Sun Sign	Leo
Born in	Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland)
Famous as	Physicist
Died at Age	89

Isidor Isaac Rabi

American

Jul 29, 1898

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Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Poland)