Awards & Winners

Abraham Pais

Date of Birth 19-May-1918
Place of Birth Amsterdam
(Netherlands, North Holland, European Netherlands)
Nationality United States of America, Netherlands, Denmark
Also know as Bram Pais, Bram Pais, ברהם פאיס
Profession Physicist, Writer, Historian, Teacher, Author
Abraham Pais 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.

Awards by Abraham Pais

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1983


National Book Award for Science (Hardcover)
Honored for : Subtle is the Lord...: The Science and Life of Albert Einstein

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Science (Hardcover) \"Subtle is the Lord...\": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein