Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. He was one of the first scientists in the U.S. to work on the cavity magnetron. He died at the age of 89 in New Jersey on September 25, 2013.
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Isidor Isaac Rabi was an American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. He was also one of the first scientists in the U.S. to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens. Born into a traditional Polish-Jewish family in Rymanów, Galicia, Rabi came to the United States as a baby and was raised in New York’s Lower East Side. In response to anti-Semitism, he started writing his name as I. I. Rabi, and was known professionally as IsidorIsaac Rabi. He retired from teaching in 1967 but remained active in the department and held the title of University Professor Emeritus and Special Lecturer until his death. He died at the age of 89 in New Jersey on September 25, 2013. He is buried in Mount Sinai, New York City, where he was a member of the Hebrew Congregation of the Holy Sepulchre and served as a trustee of the New York Hebrew Academy of Music and the Hebrew University of America. He also was a co-creator of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and served on its board of directors from 1952 to 1956. He worked on radar during World War II and on the Manhattan Project after the war. He wrote a book about the development of the microwave oven, “Microwave Ovens in the Microwave Age,” which was published in 1966. He had a son, David, who died in 2010.
He lived in New Mexico and died in California in 2013. His daughter, Gertrude, is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also known for her work on magnetic resonance imaging, which has been used in medical imaging for more than 50 years. She was married to physicist David Rabi until he died in 2013, and they had a daughter, Victoria, who is also a professor of physics at Columbia University. She died in 2014, and she is survived by her husband and two sons, David and David. The couple had three children, David Jr. and David III, and a daughter-in-law, Victoria Rabi-Rabi, who also died in 2011. She has a son named David, also known as David, and two daughters, Victoria and Victoria-Michele. She lived in Brooklyn, where she worked as a teacher and a librarian. She also worked at the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn. In 1916, she entered Cornell University as an electrical engineering student, but soon switched to chemistry. After World War I in 1917, he joined the American Army Training Corps. In 1919, he was awarded his Bachelor of Science degree in June 1919. In 1922, he returned to Cornell as a bookkeeper and worked at Lederle Laboratories. In 1927, he went to Europe to study chemistry. In 1929, he worked with Gregory Breit, who developed the Breit–Rabi equation and predicted the Stern–Gerlach experiment.
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