(1898-1988) Russian-born US physicist who developed techniques to measure accurately the strength of the weak magnetic fields generated when charged elementary particles, such as the electron, spin about their axes. The work won him the 1944 Nobel Prize for Physics.
1898, 1988, US-amerik. Physiker; Arbeiten über elektr. u. magnet. Eigenschaften von Atomkernen; Nobelpreis für Physik 1944.
Either of two months of the Islamic year: Rabi al-awwal; Rabi al-thani