Hans Albert Einstein
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Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and the first son of renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and his first wife Mileva Marić (1875-1948).
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[edit] Family
Hans Albert was born in Bern, Switzerland, where Albert Einstein worked as a clerk in the patent office. A younger brother Eduard Einstein (1910-1965) was born in 1910. Their parents divorced in 1919.
Hans Albert married Frieda Knecht in 1927. They had three children — Bernhard Caesar (b. 1930), a physicist, Klaus Martin (1932-1938) and Evelyn (b. 1941, an adopted child). Frieda died in 1958, and Hans Albert remarried to Elizabeth Roboz.
[edit] Career
He received his Diploma in Civil Engineering and Doctor of Technical Sciences from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He worked in Dortmund, Germany as a steel engineer before migrating to the United States in 1938. His main field of interest was the mechanics of the transportation of sediment by flowing water, wherein his doctoral thesis was the seminal work on the subject. He joined the faculty of the University of California in 1947, and later became Professor of Hydraulic Engineering.
"The bed-load function for sediment transportation in open channel flows" was an important advance in the study of sedimentation transport which is still cited (in undergraduate courses etc.) [1] [2] [3]. He retired in 1970. To mark his life-long contribution to the field, he had a book published by his (ex-)research students in his honour, Sedimentation.
Hans Albert died of heart failure in 1973, and is buried near Woods Hole, Massachusetts, US.
[edit] Honors
In 1988 the American Society of Civil Engineers created the Hans Albert Einstein Award to recognize outstanding achievements in erosion control, sedimentation and/or waterway development.[4]
[edit] References
- "The bed-load function for sediment transportation in open channel flows", Einstein, H. A., United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1026, Washington DC, 1950
- Sedimentation: symposium to honor H. A. Einstein, Hsieh Wen Shen (ed.), 1972
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