Word: rabi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dictating a letter to President Roosevelt which sparked the Manhattan Project. There are the quick-eyed Lise Meitner, the steely Compton, the vivid Fermi, the deceptively rustic Bush, their faces subtly haggard in remembrance of the moments they are reenacting; and there are the faces of Oppenheimer and Rabi, a few minutes before all hell breaks loose in the New Mexican desert, with the shaky exchange-Oppenheimer: "This time, Rob the stakes are really high." Rabi:"It's going to work all right, Robert, and I'm sure we won't be sorry for it." There...
...forced draft of war" is popularly supposed to have produced great advances in science. A vulgar error, says Professor I. I. Rabi, Chairman of Columbia University's Physics Department. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Professor Rabi looks gloomily back at the last five years -and gloomily ahead at the immediate future...
Most of the physicists who forged scientific weapons with such spectacular success are anxious to get back to their true love: theoretical work. But Professor Rabi is not sure that they will be encouraged (or allowed) to do so. Once dismissed as misty dreamers, they are now being courted with alarmingly possessive ardor...
Molecular Beam. Stern and Rabi tackled the question: what holds the nucleus of an atom together? Its protons have positive charges which repel each other, yet the nucleus as a whole possesses a magnetic force that keeps them from breaking loose. Nuclear magnets are so small that for a long time no one knew how to measure them. But at Hamburg, where Rabi worked with Stern as a graduate student, Stern discovered...
...Rabi, carrying these studies further, found the molecular beam much more helpful in studying the structure of an atom than an atom-smashing machine, whose use he likens to studying the Taj Mahal by dynamiting it and considering the fragments. By his method, Rabi learned, for example, that the deuteron, the simplest known nucleus, revolves like a football spinning end over...