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Abraham Pais ( / peɪs /; May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch - American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II.
abraham pais was a theoretical physicist during the first part of his career and a science historian during the second. though born in amsterdam and a dutch speaker, he spent nearly all his career in the United states and was most comfortable in english. as a scientist he was a founder of theoretical particle physics and made seminal contribu-ti...
Born on 19 May 1918 in Amsterdam, Abraham “Bram” Pais excelled both as a particle physicist and a historian of science. He earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics at the University of Amsterdam in 1938.
Dr. Abraham Pais [was] a physicist who helped build the conceptual foundations of the modern theory of elementary particles, then became a science historian and wrote one of the most acclaimed of all biographies of Einstein.
In this new major work Abraham Pais, himself an eminent physicist who worked alongside Einstein in the post-war years, traces the development of Einstein's...
Aug 25, 2005 · A comprehensive and authoritative biography of Einstein by a physicist who knew him personally. The book covers Einstein's scientific achievements, philosophical views, and personal relationships, with historical context and details.
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist who worked on nuclear physics and wrote biographies of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. He survived the World War II and collaborated with Bohr and Einstein after the war.
