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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Pais has received more than 205,121 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Abraham Pais is the 518th most popular physicist (up from 678th in 2019), the 533rd most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 773rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abraham Pais ranks 518 out of 851. Before him are Lester Germer, Alan Sokal, John Henry Schwarz, Heinrich Barkhausen, Andreas von Ettingshausen, and Max Wien. After him are Konstantin Novoselov, George Zweig, Yakir Aharonov, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Ernest Marsden, and Edoardo Amaldi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abraham Pais ranks 153. Before him are Brenda Milner, Mickey Spillane, Lucian Pulvermacher, Oles Honchar, Albert George Wilson, and Eric Ericson. After him are Iryna Melnykova, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Ruggiero Ricci, and Patachou. Among people deceased in 2000, Abraham Pais ranks 141. Before him are Jerzy Giedroyc, Gus Hall, Jean Carzou, Antti Hyvärinen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and W. D. Hamilton. After him are Basil Bernstein, Jean-Claude Izzo, Nicholas Clay, Julie London, John Tukey, and Hendrik C. van de Hulst.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 533 out of 1,646. Before him are Hennie Kuiper (1949), Bart van der Leck (1876), Adrianus Johannes Simonis (1931), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), and Jan van de Cappelle (1624). After him are Arnold Mühren (1951), Cornelis Tromp (1629), Dirk van der Aa (1731), Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Walter Lewin (1936), and Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 18. Before him are Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), and Hendrik Casimir (1909). After him are Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Jan Burgers (1895), and Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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