Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Isidor Isaac Rabi (July 29, 1898 – January 11, 1988) was a Galician-born physicist, and Nobel laureate.
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- [He gave us the atom bomb]; what more do you want, mermaids?
- In defense of Robert Oppenheimer
- Atomised
- My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference—asking good questions—made me become a scientist.
- Quoted in “Great Minds Start With Questions,” Parents Magazine (September 1993)
- I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity.