He discovered the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) while researching molecular beams in 1938. Eight years later, Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell used Rabi’s work to invent the NMR spectrometer, a highly useful tool for analysing molecules.
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