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May 19, 1918 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands Died on 28 Jul 2000 (aged 82)
American Physicist
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About Abraham Pais
- Abraham Pais (; 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.
- 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.
