Abraham Pais
Physicist, Academic
1918 – 2000
Who was Abraham Pais?
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born 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. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war. He then served as an assistant to Niels Bohr in Denmark and was later a colleague of Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Pais wrote books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. He was a physics professor at Rockefeller University until his retirement.
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- Born
- May 19, 1918
Amsterdam - Also known as
- Bram Pais
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lila Lee Pais
- Ida Nicolaisen
(1985 - 2000/07/28)
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Dutch-American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Netherlands
- Denmark
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Utrecht University
Theoretical physics
( - 1941/06/09)
- PhD, Utrecht University
- Employment
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- United States of America
- Copenhagen
( - 2000/07/28)
- Died
- Jul 28, 2000
Copenhagen
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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