A nuclear physicist who was horn in Uislria and brought to this country in his infancy, DR. I. I. KABI was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 19-Vi. fie has been a member of the Columbia i nirersity faculty since 1929 and was made Chairman of the President’s Science Advisory Committee in 1997.
An American who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1944 It for his work in nuclear physics, I. I. RABI is today Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission .It is Dr. Raid’s Indie) that science is no longer communicable to the great majority of educated laymen and that we cannot attain wisdom as long as the two great branches of human knowledge ,the sciences and (he humanities, remain separate.
“The road ahead may be invisible,” writes I. I. RABI,Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia University, “but to science the unknown is a problem full of interest and promise. The scientific tradition should help us to renew and reaffirm our faith.” Dr. Rabi, who served as a member of the General Advisory Committee for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work in atomic physics.
I. I. RABI, head of the Physics Department at Columbia and a member of the General Advisory Committee for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, received the Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work in atomic physics. Here he attacks the case argued by P. M. S. Blackett, the British physicist, who was an operational analyst during the war and a Nobel Prize winner last year. The issues involve our fifteen-billion-dollar budget for defense, our American understanding of atomic warfare, and the nature of our relationship with Soviet Russia.