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Isidor Isaac Rabi (18981988) was an American physicist and Nobel


laureate. Born on 29 July 1898 into a traditional Jewish family in what was
then part of Austria-Hungary, Rabi came to the United States as a baby and
was raised in New York's Lower East Side. In collaboration with Gregory
Breit, he developed the Breit-Rabi equation, and predicted that the Stern
Gerlach experiment could be modified to confirm the properties of the
atomic nucleus. During World War II he worked on radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory,
and on the Manhattan Project. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his
discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, used in spectroscopy and imaging. He was also
one of the first scientists in the US to work on the cavity magnetron, a key component in
microwave radar and microwave ovens. After the war, he served on the General Advisory
Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was its chairman from 1952 to 1956. He
was Science Advisor to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and was involved in the creation
of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (1947) and CERN (1954). (Full article...)

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