Abraham pais biography

Dutch-American physicist and science historian

Abraham Pais (; May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-Americanphysicist 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.^[2] 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.

Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian.

Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian.

Abraham Pais, a Dutch-American Jewish theoretical physicist and would-be historian of science, was born May 19,

Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian.

ABRAHAM PAIS WAS A theoretical physicist during the first part of his career and a science historian during the second.

Abraham Pais was the pre-eminent historian of quantum physics in the twentieth century.

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.

Early life

Pais was born in Amsterdam, the first child of middle-class Dutch-Jewish parents.

His father, Isaiah "Jacques" Pais, was the descendant of Sephardic Jewi