John Rigden’s biography of Isidor Rabi, the American physicist and Nobel
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eventually “statesman” of science, has been reissued in paperback. Rabi’s 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
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