I. I. Rabi Award

Photo of I. I. Rabi Award given in 1984 to David W. Allan, the second to receive it after Rabi.

The I. I. Rabi Award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

"The Rabi Award is to recognize outstanding contributions related to the fields of atomic and molecular frequency standards, and time transfer and dissemination."[1]

Named after Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner in 1944 for theoretical and experimental contributions to atomic beam resonance spectroscopy leading to the development of practical atomic frequency standards. He was the first to receive the prize in 1983.

Rabi Award winners

See also

References

  1. Rabi Award. IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Accessed September 2014.
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