Chapter 14
Last Years
Publication: Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Abstract
Hans Albert retired from his Berkeley professorship in July 1971 at the age of 67. Post-retirement, the primary focus of his professional activities shifted to delivering invited lectures and consulting. Freed from his formal classroom ties at Berkeley and thus able to exercise his love of travel, he frequently lectured elsewhere. Hans Albert continued his professional writing, adding the production of several book chapters to his usual contributions to journals and conference proceedings. He also was starting to work on a sedimentation text for engineers with his colleague and friend of many years, Donald Bondurant. In June 1973, he died of a massive heart attack while on a trip to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. Hans Albert was buried in a small Woods Hole churchyard overlooking Vineyard Sound, where ocean currents rhythmically washed and sifted the sediments that he had studied for a lifetime.
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Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer
Pages: 281 - 291
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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