“I have come to think that physics is a never-ending quest.”
Isaac Isidor Rabi discovered a method to measure the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei - research that would later be used for the development of MRI and atomic clocks. His contemporaries and mentors included many names that are commonplace in physics textbooks of today. Among those that nominated Rabi for the Nobel Prize are Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli and Enrico Fermi.
During the second world war, Rabi played a part in the development of the atomic bomb, but after it ended he was a vocal critic of nuclear weapons, arguing for them to be limited. A proponent of international cooperation, he also had a significant role in establishing major research laboratories in Brookhaven and CERN.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1944.
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