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Abraham Pais (/ p eɪ s /; 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.
Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein is a biography of Albert Einstein written by Abraham Pais. First published in 1982 by Oxford University Press, the book is one of the most acclaimed biographies of the scientist.
Abraham Pais was a physicist and a science historian who worked at IAS from 1946 to 1981. He contributed to the theory of elementary particles and wrote a biography of Einstein.
Abraham Pais on Einstein Lived Here - The John Adams Institute - YouTube. 0:00 / 1:41:20. In 1995, the John Adams Institute proudly hosted an evening with Abraham Pais, previously Emeritus...
25 de ago. de 2005 · Abraham Pais was a physicist and historian who wrote the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. His book covers Einstein's theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, philosophy, and personal life, based on his own knowledge and research.
Pais examines the formulation of Einstein's theories of relativity, his work on Brownian motion, and his response to quantum theory with authority and precision. The profound transformation Einstein's ideas effected on the physics of the turn of the century is here laid out for the serious reader.
19 May 2017. The Dutch-born scientist was a leading expert in both particle physics and physics history. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.6.6.20170519a. Born on 19 May 1918 in Amsterdam, Abraham “Bram” Pais excelled both as a particle physicist and a historian of science.
