Word: rabi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does the nature of their research exempt scientists from the compulsion to stand by? Men like Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp, Isidor Rabi and others...
Murray v. Rabi, Wiesner, Bethe and Inglis may make interesting controversy, and the military strength of the U.S., which is being considered, is very important indeed. But bombs are not the only source of strength needed, and we should remember that the bomb negotiations are likely to fail. (In my opinion, they are certain to fail.) It is my contention that the U.S.S.R. will only negotiate seriously when they must do so, and they do not think they need to do so now. A firm political union of the Western democracies would surely impress upon them the desirability...
...probably behind them. Chemist Linus Pauling published his milestone theories about the nature of the chemical bond in the '30s, waited until 1954 to receive his Nobel Prize. But Pauling's accurate insights remain a basis for the work of 1960?3 scientists in many fields. Physicist I. I. Rabi received his Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work on the atomic nucleus, in recent years has been most active as an articulate adviser to the Federal Government, explaining science to the Solons as something that requires, and is worthy of, a basic "optimism of the possible." The most remarkable...
...plenty of practical inventors of the Edison type, but its technology was built almost entirely on basic ideas imported from Europe, and its real scientists were rare. In the years after World War I, young Americans still went to Europe for scientific enlightenment; among them were Rabi and Pauling, who completed their education abroad, then came home to do original research that put them ahead of their teachers...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 62, became a scientist, he says, for one overpowering reason: "I couldn't help it." Brought to the U.S. 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...