Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais Abraham (Bram) Pais Born (1918-05-19)May 19, 1918 Amsterdam, Netherlands Died July 28, 2000(2000-07-28) (aged 82) Copenhagen, Denmark Residence American Denmark Nationality American Fields Physicist Institutions Rockefeller University, USA Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA Alma mater University of Utrecht Doctoral advisor Léon Rosenfeld Known for G-parity, treatment of SU(6) symmetry breaking Notable awards Andrew Gemant Award (1993) Spouse Jeanne Lila Lee Atwill Ida Nicolaisen 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.