I._I._Rabi_Award

I. I. Rabi Award

I. I. Rabi Award

American award for atomic and molecular frequency standards

This article is about an award given by the IEEE. For the similarly named award given by the American Physical Society, see I. I. Rabi Prize.

The I. I. Rabi Award, founded in 1983, is awarded annually by 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]

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

The award is named after Isidor Isaac Rabi, Nobel Prize winner in 1944. He was the first recipient of the award, for his experimental and theoretical work on atomic beam resonance spectroscopy.[1]

Recipients

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Rabi Award. IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society. Accessed May 2018.
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