Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein | |
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| Born | Hans Albert Einstein May 14, 1904 |
| Died | July 26, 1973 (aged 69) |
| Cause of death | Heart failure |
| Nationality |  Switzerland (1904-1973)  USA (1943-1973) |
| Occupation | Hydraulic engineer |
| Spouse | Frieda Knecht |
| Children | Bernhard Caesar, Klaus Martin and Evelyn Knecht |
| Parent(s) | Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric |
| Relatives | Eduard Einstein, Lieserl Einstein |
| Website | [1] |
| Notes | |
"I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!"Albert Einstein in a letter to his son Hans Albert, June 1918 | |
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).
Life
"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. His papers are available for research at the Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley.[4]
Hans Albert is buried near Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
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 later married Elizabeth Roboz.
Career
Hans Einstein received his Diploma in Civil Engineering and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree 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. His doctoral thesis was the seminal work on this subject. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 and later became Professor of Hydraulic Engineering.
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.[5]
References
- ^ Module 4 References - The Archaeological Potential of Secondary Contexts
- ^ The Relation between Bedform Type, Vertical Sorting in Bedforms and Bedload Transport During Subsequent Discharge Waves in Large Sand Gravel Bed Rivers with Fixed Banks
- ^ http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00002588/01/PAP_79B.pdf
- ^ Inventory of the Hans Albert Einstein Papers, 1937-1972
- ^ American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- "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
