Chapter 11
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Publication: Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
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During Hans Albert's busy early years at Berkeley, where his efforts as a consultant were multiplied by activities as a new faculty member, correspondence with his father was regular but not frequent. With his first doctoral student, El-Sayed Ahmed El-Samni, Hans Albert took advantage of the major advances in instrumentation since his own days as a graduate student and conducted a series of laboratory studies examining how water flow forces cause bed particles to move in an apparently probabilistic manner related to fluctuating hydrodynamic lift force exerted by water flow. During the period 1949 to 1951, Hans Albert undertook research on flow resistance with Berkeley doctoral student Robert Banks. Over the period 1950–1951, graduate student Ning Chien and Hans Albert carried out flume experiments. Throughout this period, the pleasure of sharing work-related ideas remained a strong bond between father and son.
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