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Abraham Pais

1918 - 2000

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abraham Pais is the 634th most popular physicist (down from 519th in 2019), the 702nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 533rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abraham Pais ranks 634 out of 851. Before him are Georg Hermann Quincke, Ole Jacob Broch, Robert R. Wilson, Georges-Louis Le Sage, Balthasar van der Pol, and Yvette Cauchois. After him are James Hansen, Gordon Gould, Isaak Kikoin, Lee Smolin, Julius Wess, and Ferdinand Monoyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abraham Pais ranks 211. Before him are Axel Grönberg, Antonio Janigro, Frane Matošić, Alexander Galich, Gisela Arendt, and Meir Vilner. After him are Bill Vukovich, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Franjo Wölfl, Vicente de la Mata, and Vladimir Dudintsev. Among people deceased in 2000, Abraham Pais ranks 214. Before him are Robert R. Wilson, Jack Nitzsche, Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Enric Valor i Vives, Henri Hérouin, and Olena Apanovych. After him are Joann Lõssov, Rodolfo Pini, Vladimir Bagirov, Billy Barty, Richard Mulligan, and Vicente Asensi.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 702 out of 1,646. Before him are Roelof Klein (1877), Mark Blaug (1927), René Pijnen (1946), Ruud Hesp (1965), Jan Frederik Gronovius (1686), and Balthasar van der Pol (1889). After him are Jan Lammers (1956), Bennie Muller (1938), Kees de Jager (1921), Jan Zwartkruis (1926), Albert Kluyver (1888), and Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 20. Before him are Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Hendrik Casimir (1909), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), and Balthasar van der Pol (1889). After him are Jan Burgers (1895), Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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