Biography:Abraham Pais

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Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais
Born 19 May 1918
Died 28 July 2000


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.[1]

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


Author: Harold Foppele