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	'''Abraham Pais''' (19 May 1918 - 28 July 2000) was a Dutch-American physicist and historian of science.<ref name="~~bio-source~~">{{Cite web \|title=Abraham Pais \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref>		'''Abraham Pais''' (19 May 1918 - 28 July 2000) was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist and historian of science.<ref name="wiki">{{Cite web \|title=Abraham Pais \|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais \|website=Wikipedia \|access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref>

	His ~~book~~ ''Inward Bound'' ~~is used~~ in the QFT further-reading list ~~as a~~ historical ~~account~~ of ~~matter~~ and forces ~~in twentieth-century physics~~.		== Career and work ==
			Pais trained as a physicist in the Netherlands and later worked in the United States, where he became closely associated with the postwar theoretical-physics community.<ref name="wiki" /><ref name="bohr">{{Cite web \|title=Abraham Pais papers \|url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/collections/abraham-pais-papers \|website=Niels Bohr Library & Archives \|publisher=American Institute of Physics \|access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref>

			He became especially influential as a historian of modern physics. His books include ''Subtle is the Lord'', on Albert Einstein, ''Niels Bohr's Times'', and ''Inward Bound'', a history of matter and forces in twentieth-century physics.<ref name="wiki" /><ref name="book">{{Cite book \|title=Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World \|author=Abraham Pais \|publisher=Oxford University Press \|year=1986 \|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/inward-bound-9780198519973}}</ref>

			In the QFT further-reading list, ''Inward Bound'' gives general readers historical background on the development of particle physics, quantum theory, and the field-theoretic view of forces.<ref name="book" />

	== Selected works ==		== Selected works ==
			* ''Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein'' (1982).
	* ''Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World'' (1986).		* ''Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World'' (1986).
			* ''Niels Bohr's Times: In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity'' (1991).

	== References ==		== References ==
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	== External links ==		== External links ==
	* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais Abraham Pais]		* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais Abraham Pais]
			* [https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/collections/abraham-pais-papers Abraham Pais papers]
			* [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/inward-bound-9780198519973 Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World]

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{{Short description|Dutch-American physicist and science historian}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Abraham Pais
| image = Abraham Pais.jpg
| caption = Abraham Pais
| birth_date = 19 May 1918
| death_date = 28 July 2000
| fields = Theoretical physics; history of science
| known_for = Physics history; biographies of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr; ''Inward Bound''
}}

'''Abraham Pais''' (19 May 1918 - 28 July 2000) was a Dutch-American physicist and historian of science.<ref name="bio-source">{{Cite web |title=Abraham Pais |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais |website=Wikipedia |access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref>

His book ''Inward Bound'' is used in the QFT further-reading list as a historical account of matter and forces in twentieth-century physics.

== Selected works ==
* ''Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World'' (1986).

== References ==
{{reflist|3}}

== External links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Pais Abraham Pais]

{{Author|Harold Foppele}}