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Isidor Isaac Rabi

Isidor Isaac RabiBorn: 29-Jul-1898
Birthplace: Rymanów, Austria-Hungary
Died: 11-Jan-1988
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Magnetic beam resonances

Father: David Rabi
Mother: Janet Teig
Wife: Helen Newmark (m. 1926, two daughters)

    University: BS Chemistry, Cornell University (1919)
    University: Cornell University (postgraduate study in 1921)
    University: PhD, Columbia University (1927)
    Professor: Physics, Columbia University (1937-)
    Professor: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1940-45)

    Manhattan Project
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1944
    Oersted Medal 1982
    Vannevar Bush Award 1986
    US Atomic Energy Commission GAC (1946-56), Chairman (1952-56)
    American Physical Society President, 1950
    National Academy of Sciences
    American Philosophical Society
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences


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