Abraham Pais, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Abraham Pais

American Physicist

Date of Birth: 19-May-1918

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 28-Jul-2000

Profession: physicist, university teacher, historian of science, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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.