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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 191,615 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Abraham Pais is the 678th most popular physicist (down from 657th in 2019), the 775th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 719th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Abraham Pais ranks 678 out of 717. Before him are Bernard Lovell, Vladimir Veksler, Robert L. Forward, Robert R. Wilson, Gerald Guralnik, and Ernst Stueckelberg. After him are Sulamith Goldhaber, Clyde Cowan, Frank Benford, Leonard Mlodinow, Ernst Ising, and Charles H. Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Abraham Pais ranks 232. Before him are Viktor Talalikhin, Horacio Casarín, Gisela Arendt, Mariano Mores, Dick Esser, and Jorge Illueca. After him are Stubby Kaye, Professor Longhair, Max de Terra, Dick Haymes, Margaret Osborne duPont, and Mrinalini Sarabhai. Among people deceased in 2000, Abraham Pais ranks 247. Before him are Georgiy Gongadze, Raymundo Rodríguez, Nils Täpp, Kazimierz Brandys, Enric Miralles, and Robert R. Wilson. After him are Petter Hugsted, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Alfredo Sánchez, Edward Battell, Mark R. Hughes, and Jules Roy.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 775 out of 1,427. Before him are Reinier Beeuwkes (1884), Nicolaas Pierson (1839), Catharina Lodders (1942), Michiel Huisman (1981), Hendrik Timmer (1904), and Dries van der Lof (1919). After him are Pieter Huistra (1967), Bernard Leene (1903), Atje Keulen-Deelstra (1938), Adrie Koster (1954), Adrie van Kraay (1953), and George van Rossem (1882).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Abraham Pais ranks 23. Before him are Dirk Coster (1889), Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Jan Burgers (1895), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), and Antonius van den Broek (1870). After him are Kees Schouhamer Immink (1946).

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