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Abraham Pais dies

04 Aug 2000

Abraham Pais, the reknowned theoretical physicist and scientific historian, has died at the age of 81. Pais worked with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Dirac and Feynman among many others. The relationships he forged during his research career gave him his unique perspective from which he wrote many highly acclaimed biographies.

His best-known work was a biography of Einstein, Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Alb

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