Word: rabi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course stems from the conviction of such committee members as Nobel Prizewinners I. I. Rabi and Edward Purcell that most high school physics texts and teaching techniques lag as much as half a century behind the times. Worse yet, physics is usually presented as a series of unrelated subjects, e.g., mechanics, heat, electricity. The committee's ambitious goal: a program that explores and relates such basics of modern physics as the wave concept and submicroscopic particles...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...
...scientific forces more brains and more prestige. From Gettysburg came the announcement that the Science Advisory Committee, heretofore an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization, will move its offices directly into the White House. At the same time, the committee of twelve, headed by Columbia Physicist Isidor Rabi, will take on five new members...
...Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "Mr. Oppenheimer was indiscreet in many of the things he said, but you have to take genius the way it exists." Some scientists backed up the politicians. Said Columbia University's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, chairman of President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee: reinstatement of Oppenheimer would be "a source of encouragement to the whole scientific community...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 59, shy, good-humored Columbia University professor of physics is chairman of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee. The Austrian-born son of a tailor, he was brought to the U.S. as an infant. In 1944 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering a new method of measuring and studying the magnetic properties of the atomic nucleus. "Some people," he says, "turn to science as a career to make a living, others because somebody they admire tremendously is a scientist. And then there are those who just can't help it-like me. I knocked...