Hans Albert Einstein

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name = Hans Albert Einstein


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birth_name = Hans Albert Einstein
birth_date = Birth date|1904|5|14
birth_place = Bern, Switzerland
death_date = Death date and age|1973|7|26|1904|5|14
death_place = Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
death_cause = Heart failure
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occupation = Hydraulic engineer
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religion = Serbian OrthodoxFact|date=October 2008
spouse = Frieda Knecht
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children = Bernhard Caesar, Klaus Martin and Evelyn Knecht
parents = Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric
relatives = Eduard Einstein, Lieserl Einstein


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footnotes = "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.) [ [http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/Aggregates/arch-mod4-refs.htm Module 4 References - The Archaeological Potential of Secondary Contexts ] ] [ [http://www.geog.uu.nl/fg/mkleinhans/publicat/conf/gbr5/kleinhans10.htm 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] 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. [ [http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0779n5bx Inventory of the Hans Albert Einstein Papers, 1937-1972 ] ]

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 work on this subject. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 and later became Professor of Hydraulic Engineering.

Honours

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. [ [http://www.asce.org/pressroom/honors/honors_details.cfm?hdlid=19 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) ] ]

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

External links

* [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/einstein.html Biography from berkeley.edu]
* [http://www.einstein-website.de/biographies/einsteinhansalbert.html Biography from einstein-website.de]