Ether Wave Propaganda

The web lab is for exploring and demonstrating the look and feel of potential web applications. Comments and discussion are most welcome.  Below is a quick prototype of what a biography page would look like from the new AIP Recent American Physicists web project.

Isidor Isaac (“I. I.”) Rabi

Born: 29 July 1898 (Raymanow, Austria-Hungary)

Emigrated to U.S.: 1899

Ph.D.: Columbia University, 1927

Died: 11 January 1988 (New York, NY)

Education

1919: BA, Cornell University

1922: Graduate School, Cornell University

1922-1927: Graduate School, Columbia University

1927: PhD, Columbia University

Full-Time Positions

1929-1937: Columbia University, Lecturer in Theoretical Physics

1937-1968: Columbia University, Professor of Theoretical Physics

Other Major Positions

1927-1929: Zurich, Munich, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Visiting Researcher

1940-1942: MIT Radiation Laboratory cavity magnetron development group

1942-1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory, Associate Director

1942-1945: MIT Radiation Laboratory Columbia University Satellite, Nonresident Director

1945-1949: Columbia University, Chair of Physics Department

Other Positions

1935-1938: Physical Review, Editorial Board

1939: Ballistics Research Laboratory at Aberdeen, MD, [Consultant?]

1942-1945: Manhattan Project, Consultant

1945: American Physical Society, Council

1946-1947: U. S. Department of Defense Joint Research and Development Board, Chair of Policy Council

1947-1956: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Committee, Member

1950: UNESCO, U. S. Delegate to General Assembly

1950: National Academy of Sciences Committee to Explore the Role of Science in Foreign Relations, Member

1950-1951: American Physical Society, President

1950-1953: UNESCO, Member of U. S. National Committee

1952-1956: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission General Advisory Committee, Chair

1952-1957: U. S. Office of Defense Mobilization Scientific Advisory Committee, Member

1955-19??: U. N. Scientific Committee, U. S. Member

1955: Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Advisory Committee, Vice President

1956-1957: U. S. Office of Defense Mobilization Scientific Advisory Committee, Chair

1957-1961: President’s Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC), Member

1958: Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Advisory Committee, Vice President

1958-19??: International Atomic Energy Agency Scientific Advisory Committee, Member

1961-19??: Associated Universities, President

1961-onwards: President’s Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC), Consultant

Awards and Honors

1940: Elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences

1948: Nobel Prize in Physics

Archives

Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington DC [online finding aid]

Resources

John S. Rigden, Rabi: Scientist and Citizen (New York: Basic Books, 1987)

Norman F. Ramsey, “I. I. Rabi: 1898-1988,” Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1993): 311-324 [online pdf version]

Paul Forman, “Molecular Beam Measurements of Nuclear Moments before Magnetic Resonance. Part I: I. I. Rabi and Deflecting Magnets to 1938,” Annals of Science 55 (1998): 111-160.

John Krige, “Isidor I. Rabi and CERN,” Physics in Perspective 7 (2005): 150-164.

Michael A. Day, “In Appreciation, I. I. Rabi: The Two Cultures and the Universal Culture of Science,” Physics in Perspective 6 (2004): 428-476.

Media and other resources

Photos in the AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives

Oral History Interview, 1963 (held at AIP Niels Bohr Library and Archives)

Oral History Interview, 1980 (held at AIP Niels Bohr Library and Archives)

Search AIP International Catalog of Sources (ICOS) for published and unpublished items by Rabi

Search AIP International Catalog of Sources (ICOS) for published and unpublished items concerning Rabi