Abraham Pais
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 24 years ago |
Date of birth | May 19,1918 |
Zodiac sign | Taurus |
Born | Amsterdam |
Netherlands | |
Date of died | July 28,2000 |
Died | Copenhagen |
Denmark | |
Spouse | Ida Nicolaisen |
Children | Josh Pais |
Parents | Isaiah Pais |
Kaatje van Kleeff | |
Awards | National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) |
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | |
Siblings | Annie Pais |
Nationality | American |
Danish | |
Dutch | |
Books | "Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein |
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World | |
Niels Bohr's times | |
J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life | |
Grandchildren | Zane Pais |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 705285 |
Abraham Pais Life story
Abraham Pais 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.