Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1962.

Biographical Note

Physicist

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education, New York City; early interest and experiments in physical sciences; Cornell and first awareness of physics; return to New York City; Brooklyn Study Circle and intellectual ferment of the 1920s; dissertation, early papers; Europe 1927-29, especially Copenhagen and Hamburg; Columbia 1929 on; activity in theoretical and experimental physics; quantum theory, complementarity; students. Impressions of many scientists, including Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert Oppenheimer

Subjects

• Columbia University.
• Interviews.
• Krieger, Morris, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Land, Barbara, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicists--Interviews.
• Physics.
• Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1995