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Abraham Pais
Abraham Pais was a Dutch-American physicist and science historian. A graduate of the University of Leiden, Pais became a professor in physics at the University of Utrecht. He then crossed the Atlantic to work as a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he remained until his retirement 1991. He was a notable theoretical physicist in the field of particle physics, contributing to theories such as the lambda transition—the only transition in nuclear physics which could occur without any energy input. He is also renowned for his popular science and biographical writing, most notably his acclaimed biography of physicist Albert Einstein. Pais received numerous awards for his contributions to science, including the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics in 1988. He passed away in 2000 and was posthumously awarded the National Medal of Science by the President of the United States.
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