The American Physical Society, a national organization of
physicists dedicated to the development and promotion of
physics, named Pupin Hall, home to Columbia's physics
department, a historic site. The society recognized the
University's historic contributions to the advancement of the
science, and singled out Isidor Isaac Rabi, the late Nobel
laureate and Columbia professor, for his groundbreaking
achievements in magnetic resonance. |Isidor Isaac Rabi Image
credit: Columbia University Libraries During a ceremony last
Thursday, David Hirsh, Columbia's executive vice president for
research, accepted a plaque from Gene Sprouse, American Physical
Society editor-in-chief. Also in attendance were Rabi's two
daughters, Nancy Lichtenstein and Margaret Rabi Beels, Columbia
physicist and Nobel laureate Tsung-Dao Lee , and author Richard
Rhodes, who wrote "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." During the
mid-20th century Columbia physicists led the world in the
development of quantum mechanics, laser technology and nuclear f