Rabi, I.I. with J.M.B. Kellogg and J.R. Zacharias. "Magnetic Moment of the Proton" and "Magnetic Moment of the Deuton", pp 157-163 and 163-166. Also with: G. Breit and I.I. Rabi, "On the Interpretation of Present Values of Nuclear Moments", pp 230-232. Three articles in Physical Review, volume 46, number 3, August 1, 1934. Nice, crisp copy, with some slight fading on the extreme edges of the front wrapper. A near-fine copy. $225
"By 1934 groups led by Stern, now in Pittsburgh, and I. I. Rabi in New York had independently deduced that the magnetic moment of the neutron was negative and unexpectedly large by measuring the magnetic moments of the proton and deuteron. Values for the magnetic moment of the neutron were also determined by Robert Bacher (1933) at Ann Arbor and I.Y. Tamm and S.A. Altshuler (1934) in the Soviet Union from studies of the hyperfine structure of atomic spectra. By the late 1930s accurate values for the magnetic moment of the neutron had been deduced by the Rabi group using measurements employing newly developed nuclear magnetic resonance techniques. The large value for the proton's magnetic moment and the inferred negative value for the neutron's magnetic moment were unexpected and raised many questions."--wiki
See also this store's entry on Rabi's "Magnetic Moment" paper of 1936.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Rabi in 1944 for this work discovering nuclear magnetic resonance ("for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei").
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