Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1962

Name: Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988 (Interviewee); Land, Barbara (Interviewer); Krieger, Morris (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1962
Other Titles: Reminiscences of Isidor Isaac Rabi, 1962
Abstract: 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; s tudents. Impressions of many scientists, including Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Robert Oppenheimer
Collection Name: Individual interviews oral history collection
Subjects: Physicists; Physics; Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988; Columbia University
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1962

Physical Description: sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
Note (Biographical): Physicist
Note (Funding): Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note: Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010; Interviewed by Barbara Land and Morris Krieger
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Catalog Record: 7369628
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/xhng-zv10
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.