John Rigden鈥檚 biography of Isidor Rabi, the American physicist and Nobel
prizewinner鈥攆or the development of nuclear magnetic resonance鈥攁nd
eventually 鈥渟tatesman鈥� of science, has been reissued in paperback. Rabi鈥檚 life
was remarkable, full of incident, vision and action, including war, hot and
cold. The biography is a masterpiece, rich in anecdote and never losing the
narrative drive. Published by Harvard University Press, 拢13.95, ISBN
0674004353.
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