Abraham Pais
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Abraham Pais (/peɪs/; 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.[2] 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.
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Abraham Pais | |
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Born | (1918-05-19)May 19, 1918 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Died | July 28, 2000(2000-07-28) (aged 82) Copenhagen, Denmark |
Nationality | Dutch, American |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam, University of Utrecht |
Known for | G-parity Neutral particle oscillations Strangeness Treatment of SU(6) symmetry breaking Coining the term "Standard Model"[1] |
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Awards | Andrew Gemant Award (1993)
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1979) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | Rockefeller University Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Niels Bohr Institute |
Doctoral advisor | Léon Rosenfeld |