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++Rabi and the Magnetic Moment, 1936++ RABI, I.I. "On the Process of Space Quantization", in Physical Review, volume 49, 1936, pp 324-328. In the original wrappers. Very good copy; with the fading rubber stamp of former owner Charles F. Meyer (1887-1968, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins '12, professor of physics at Michigan 1921-1948) on the cover, and with a small chip at the top of the spine; also a 1/4" receiving rubber stamp ("Feb 21 1936") on the cover.+++The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rabi in 1944 for this work discovering nuclear magnetic resonance ("for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei").__+__ "In the springtime of quantum mechanics, in 1936, I.I. Rabi investigated the semiclassical version of a model which now bears his name. The Rabi model describes the simplest interaction between a two-level atom and a classical light field."-- Daniel Braak et alia, "Semi-classical and quantum Rabi models: in celebration of 80 years"__+__ In this paper Rabi "presented a theory that became the basis for the magnetic resonance method, determination of the signs of magnetic moments". This "inaugurated a new era of precision: the experimental and theoretical difficulties that limited the precision of earlier results no longer existed". --John Rigden, Rabi, Scientiist and Citizen, Harvard, 2000, p. 94. __+__ "The Rabi resonance method can be used to measure the energy splitting between two states. It play s an important role in quantum optics. It is fast becoming popular in analysis and design of spin qubit systems. First described in [these two papers]"--Victor E. Borisenko, Stefano Ossicini, What is What in the Nanoworld: A Handbook on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Wiley-VCH, 2008.__+__ Referenced in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography entry for Rabi, volume 24, p 191, and is one of six publications noted, this being the only paper with Rabi as the solo author. Cited 1350 times. __+__ AND WITH: Rabi, "Space Quantization in a Gyrating Magnetic Field", in Physical Review, vol 51 number 8, April 15, 1937, pp 652-655 in the issue of pp 597-690. In the original wrappers. Very good, solid copy, though there is a 3" scratch in the lower right corner of the front wrapper--it doesn't go through the wrapper, but it is there. (Abstract: "The nonadiabatic transitions which a system with angular momentum J makes in a magnetic field which is rotating about an axis inclined with respect to the field are calculated. It is shown that the effects depend on the sign of the magnetic moment of the system. We therefore have an absolute method for measuring the sign and magnitude of the moment of any system. Applications to the magnetic moment of the neutron, the rotational moment of molecules, and the nuclear moment of atoms with no extra-nuclear angular momentum are discussed."--ResearchGate, which references 762 citations. __+__ This volume also contains Fritz Zwicky's second paper on gravitational lensing, "On the probability of detecting nebulae which act as a gravitational lens", p 679. Seller Inventory # ABE-1491324755495
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