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There are a great many scientists who have, since the end of the Second World War, sacrificed much of their time and creative energy in trying to achieve a disarmament agreement. Moral and deeply responsible men like I. I. Rabi, Hans Bethe, James Franck, Victor Weisskopf, J. R. Zacharias, David Inglis, Leo Szilard, Jay Orear and many, many scientific researchers and administrators might be willing to make the further sacrifice that supervising a station in the U.S.S.R. would entail...
Does the nature of their research exempt scientists from the compulsion to stand by? Men like Hans Bethe, Ralph Lapp, Isidor Rabi and others...
...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...