Isidor Isaac Rabi

1944 Nobel Prize for Physics “for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.”

American physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1944 for his invention (in 1937) of the atomic and molecular beam magnetic resonance method of observing atomic spectra. Mr. Rabi’s most important scientific work was his development (in the 1930s) of a method for measuring the magnetic properties of atoms, atomic nuclei, and molecules. His method provided the central technique for virtually all molecular and atomic beam experimentation.

Mr. Rabi was a member of the IAEA Scientific Advisory Committee in the early 1960s. (b.1898 – d. 1988)