Chapter 13
At Home in Berkeley
Publication: Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Abstract
Throughout the 1950s, Hans Albert's intense professional life absorbed his time. He liked his consulting jobs, working in the laboratory, and lecturing, especially presenting invited lectures on sediment transport by rivers. He felt at home in Berkeley and enjoyed the relatively unfettered life of a successful professor able to follow his research interests. In 1958, he and Frieda agreed to travel to Israel to dedicate the Albert Einstein Physics Institute at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Hans Albert married Elizabeth Roboz a scant eight months after Frieda's death. Their lives together emphasized their careers and academic interests. Most of Hans Albert's Berkeley teaching centered on a fairly standard set of undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics and hydraulics, with an emphasis on sediment transport and river engineering. As the years progressed, his lectures became ever more enriched by his experiences as a practicing engineer around the world.
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Einstein, E. R. (1991). Hans Albert Einstein: Reminiscences of his life and our life together, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
Graf, W. H. (1991). “Appendix B, Personal reflections on Hans Albert Einstein's importance to hydraulics.” In Einstein, E. R., Hans Albert Einstein: Reminiscences of his life and our life together, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
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Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Pages: 263 - 279
ISBN (Print): 978-0-7844-1330-2
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-7829-5
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© 2014 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: May 29, 2014
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