This is a welcome reissue with a new Preface of Rigden's stellar biography of I. I. Rabi, one the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. Rabi's discovery of the magnetic resonance method won him the Nobel Prize in 1944 and stimulated research leading to, among other things, refinements in quantum electrodynamics, refined molecular beam methods, radio astronomy with the hydrogen 21-cm line, atomic clocks, and solid state masers.

John Rigden is Adjunct Professor of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis.

Read More by John S. Rigden:

• Hydrogen: The Essential Element
• Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness