Abraham Pais date of birth:
May 19, 1918
How old was Abraham Pais when died?
82
Where was Abraham Pais born?
Amsterdam, Netherlands
When did Abraham Pais die?
July 28, 2000
Abraham Pais body shape:
Average
What color are Abraham Pais's eyes?
Brown - Dark
What color is Abraham Pais's hair?
Grey
What is Abraham Pais's ethnicity?
White
What is Abraham Pais nationality?
American
Short Biography
Abraham Pais (May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) 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.