Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1962
Creator: | Rabi, I. I. 1898-1988 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NotePhysicist
Scope and ContentsChildhood 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
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1995
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