Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Isidor Isaac Rabi/archive1

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The article was promoted by Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 01:50, 17 May 2016 [1].

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Nominator(s): Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:06, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about the Nobel Prize winning physicist who pioneered nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. What more do you want, mermaids? Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:06, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"the magnetic moment of several lithium isotopes with molecular beams, including LiCl, LiF and dilithium": Did you mean "compounds"? Or are you saying those compounds had different isotopes?
Compounds. Corrected. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. - Dank (push to talk) 02:49, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that once again. I had no idea that "artefact" was spelt "artifact" in America. Hawkeye7 (talk) 04:05, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sure thing. Yeah, I'm always looking for common spellings when I can find them, but there isn't a lot of wiggle room (yet) with "artifact". - Dank (push to talk) 04:12, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

File:Portrait_of_Albert_Einstein,_Niels_Bohr,_James_Franck_and_Rabi.jpg: "persistent URL" is dead, and is a more specific licensing tag available? Nikkimaria (talk) 16:20, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure. I have removed this image from the article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:41, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support from Edwininlondon

Good to see a science bio here. I gave it a quick scan.

"a solution whose magnetic susceptibility could be varied that was between two magnetic poles." Doesn't flow.
Re-worded. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"$1,500 ($20,434 in 2016 dollars)" conversion needs a reference
It's from {{inflation}} so added {{Inflation-fn|US}} Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"Rudolf Peierls and Hans Bethe were also working with Sommerfeld at the time, but the three Americans became especially close" works better if the nationalities of Peierls and Bethe are given as well
Added that they were German (at the time) Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"was born in September" - which year?
24 September 1929. Added year. I could give the exact date. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"Rabi had discussions with Groves" - Groves needs a bit of context. Plus first name.
Added. Odd that we got this far without mentioning him. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More later. Edwininlondon (talk) 19:35, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Source spotcheck

27a: could not find 1937 (a) on that page, or 1959 (b) but did see them both on http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/rabi-bio.html
29 ok
53 ok
57 not ok: redirected to home page
59 not fully ok: could not find anything about 'Special Lecturer'
69 ok
70 ok
75 ok

A few things in the infobox do not appear in body and remain unsourced:

Martin L. Perl
Elliott Cresson Medal (1942)
Barnard Medal (1960)

Edwininlondon (talk) 20:36, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed fn 27 as suggested. Fn 57 suffered from Link rot, so restored from backup via the Wayback machine. Deleted "special lecturer" from fn 59.
Added information about Martin L. Perl and the Elliott Cresson and Barnard Medals. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:57, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great article. Gets my support. Edwininlondon (talk) 14:08, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comments taking a look now: Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:21, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In 1923 he met Helen Newmark, a summer-semester student at Hunter College. They began courting, and in order to be near her when she returned home, Rabi continued his studies at Columbia University, where his supervisor was Albert Wills. - the bolded bit is a bit clumsy as I had to read it a few times to 'get' the grammar - I'd change to, " In 1923 he met and began courting Helen Newmark, a summer-semester student at Hunter College. To be near her when she returned home, Rabi continued his studies at Columbia University, where his supervisor was Albert Wills." - or somesuch.

The crystals then had to be carefully prepared by skillfully cutting them into sections - Two adverbs redundant here - I'd change to, "The crystals then had to be prepared by carefully cutting them into sections"

Might wanna double check and tweak where symmetric top links to....

need to link moment.

Ok, a tentative support on comprehensiveness and prose, though I am not familiar with the person or body of work, and physics does my head in :P This will be dependent on a good source review. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On examining the cavity magnetron, Rabi pronounced that it was a simple design, that worked "just like a whistle". "Okay, Rabi," Edward Condon asked, "how does a whistle work?" Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:11, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. --Laser brain (talk) 01:50, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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