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Isidor Isaac Rabi

1898 - 1988

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Israel "Isidor" Isaac Rabi (; Yiddish: איזידאָר יצחק ראַבי, romanized: Izidor Yitzkhok Rabi; July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was an American nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei". He was also one of the first scientists in the United States 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 an infant and was raised in New York's Lower East Side. He entered Cornell University as an electrical engineering student in 1916, but soon switched to chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Isidor Isaac Rabi is the 191st most popular physicist (down from 123rd in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Poland (down from 88th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Physicist.

Isaac isaac rabi is most famous for his discovery of the magnetic moment of the electron.

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Among physicists, Isidor Isaac Rabi ranks 191 out of 851. Before him are Jerome Isaac Friedman, Hans Geiger, Georg von Békésy, Douglas Osheroff, George Smoot, and Ilya Frank. After him are Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, Hugh David Politzer, and Horst Ludwig Störmer.

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Among people born in 1898, Isidor Isaac Rabi ranks 28. Before him are Gunnar Myrdal, Julius Evola, Hans Krebs, Tamara de Lempicka, Karl Hermann Frank, and Rudolf Dassler. After him are Rodion Malinovsky, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Vicente Aleixandre, René Clair, and Georges Dumézil. Among people deceased in 1988, Isidor Isaac Rabi ranks 16. Before him are Valery Legasov, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, André Frédéric Cournand, Divine, and Robert A. Heinlein. After him are Chiang Ching-kuo, Tibor Sekelj, Juan Pujol García, Trevor Howard, Klaus Fuchs, and Roy Orbison.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Isidor Isaac Rabi ranks 111 out of 1,694. Before him are Catherine Jagiellon (1526), Marie Walewska (1786), Georg Forster (1754), Henryk Wieniawski (1835), Dziga Vertov (1896), and Saint Casimir (1458). After him are Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), Karl Hanke (1903), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Casimir Funk (1884), and Władysław Sikorski (1881).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Isidor Isaac Rabi ranks 7. Before him are Marie Curie (1867), Albert A. Michelson (1852), Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Otto Stern (1888), and Rudolf Clausius (1822). After him are Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), and Vladimir Chelomey (1914).

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