Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Abraham Pais
Born: May 19, 1918
Died: July 28, 2000 (aged 82)
Bio: Abraham Pais was a Dutch-born 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.
Known for:
- Einstein Lived Here (1994)
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life
- Niels Bohr's times (1991)