![]() His only sibling, Annie, was born on November 1, 1920. They both taught school until his mother quit when they married on December 2, 1916. ![]() His parents met while studying to become elementary-school teachers. His mother, Kaatje "Cato" van Kleeff, was the daughter of an Ashkenazi Jewish diamond cutter. His father, Isaiah "Jacques" Pais, was the descendant of Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Portugal to the Low Countries around the beginning of the 17th century. Pais was born in Amsterdam, the first child of middle-class Dutch-Jewish parents. He was a physics professor at Rockefeller University until his retirement. Pais wrote books documenting the lives of these two great physicists and the contributions they and others made to modern physics. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() from University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize (1979)Ībraham Pais ( / p eɪ s/ – July 28, 2000) was a Dutch- American physicist and science historian. ![]()
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