Abraham Pais (/peɪs/; May 19, 1918 – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from University of Utrecht...

Pais was born in New York City, and is the son of Lila Lee (née Atwill), a painter and poet, and Dutch-born physicist, professor, and writer Abraham Pais...

The Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics is an award given each year since 2005 jointly by the American Physical Society and the American Institute...

Life of Albert Einstein is a biography of Albert Einstein written by Abraham Pais. First published in 1982 by Oxford University Press, the book is one...

However, most historians of science, like Gerald Holton, Arthur I. Miller, Abraham Pais, John Stachel, or Olivier Darrigol have other points of view. They admit...

because they have half-integer spin. The name "baryon", introduced by Abraham Pais, comes from the Greek word for "heavy" (βαρύς, barýs), because, at the...

fellow physicist Abraham Pais, who like Einstein was a close friend and associate of Bohr, Einstein suddenly stopped, turned to Pais, and asked: 'Do you...

Hart 2008, p. 121. Pais 2006, p. 143. Rabi, Oppenheimer (1969), p. 7, cited in Rhodes 1977, p. 149, Hijiya 2000, p. 166 and Pais 2006, p. 143 Kelly 2006...

Strobos was engaged to Abraham "Bram" Pais, a young Jewish particle physicist. She and her mother found hiding places for Pais and many of his relatives...

Pais is a Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abraham Pais (1918–2000), American physicist Arie Pais (born 1930), Dutch politician...

Life in Chemistry and Beyond (2016), Science History Institute 2019, Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, American Physical Society (APS) President...

of the Standard Model, in 1964 Mirza A.B. Beg, Benjamin W. Lee, and Abraham Pais calculated the ratio of proton to neutron magnetic moments to be −3/2...

a time scale of 10−23 s. The problem of this mismatch was solved by Abraham Pais who postulated the new quantum number called "strangeness" which is conserved...

first for the year 1993 to Thomas, have been: François Jacob (for 1994) Abraham Pais (for 1995) Freeman Dyson (for 1996) Max Perutz (for 1997) Ernst Mayr...

Detailed historical accounts are given by Wolfgang Pauli, E. T. Whittaker, Abraham Pais, and Bruce J. Hunt. The electromagnetic field exerts the following force...

the 2003 EMET Prize awarded by the Prime Minister of Israel; the 2007 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, awarded by the American Physical Society;...

the electron has a (relativistic) kinetic energy of about 40MeV.: 89  Pais, Abraham (1986). Inward Bound. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198519973...

Center on 31 January 2018 (M.P.C. 108696). She was awarded the 2024 Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics by the American Physical Society. Trimble...

sign as its charge. Strangeness was introduced by Murray Gell-Mann, Abraham Pais, Tadao Nakano and Kazuhiko Nishijima to explain the fact that certain...

John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Known for his stoic action hero persona, he is a recipient...

doctoral advisor to future Nobelist Leon Cooper. He also collaborated with Abraham Pais on meson studies and developed the Serber-Dancoff method, a refined technique...

of Wolfgang Pauli's work on non-relativistic spin systems (Dirac told Abraham Pais, "I believe I got these [matrices] independently of Pauli and possibly...

fractionally charged quarks. The term "Standard Model" was introduced by Abraham Pais and Sam Treiman in 1975, with reference to the electroweak theory with...

vol. 2, p. 596 Niels Bohr's Times, in Physics, Philosophy, and Polity. Abraham Pais, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991, p. 488 Resistance Fighter: A Personal...

1919–1920. doi:10.1103/physrev.38.1915. ISSN 0031-899X. Niels Bohr's Times, Abraham Pais, Oxford University Press, 1991, pp.378-379 "Van de Graaff's Generator"...

without an act of measurement, while Einstein refused to accept this. Abraham Pais recalled a walk with Einstein when the two discussed quantum mechanics:...

in memory of Lars Onsager and his passion for analytical results. The Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics is given jointly by the American Physical...

of Science Society. 2000: Honorary degree, University of Pavia. 2006: Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics, a joint award of the American Physical...

current J. Robert Oppenheimer physicist 1947 1966 Director 1947-1966 Abraham Pais physicist 1950 1963 Erwin Panofsky art historian 1935 1962 Emeritus 1962-1968...

Academy of Arts and Sciences.[citation needed] In 2011 he was awarded the Abraham Pais Prize for History of Physics. Schweber died on 14 May 2017 in Cambridge...