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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...from Austria as an infant, he has never forgotten his mother's daily query when he came home from public school on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "Did you ask any good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory???he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular physics won a Nobel Prize in 1944, were vital to U.S. atomic research. Now a part-time professor at Columbia University, Rabi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: THE MEN ON THE COVER: U.S. Scientists | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

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