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Hans Albert Einstein · Science & Medicine

What

Hydraulic engineer and leading authority on sediment transport in rivers and fluvial phenomena

When

1904, Bern, Switzerland — 1973, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States

Where

Switzerland · United States

Biography

Hans Albert Einstein is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Hydraulic engineer and leading authority on sediment transport in rivers and fluvial phenomena

How & why

Hans Albert Einstein was a hydraulic engineer and a leading authority on sediment transport in rivers, whose Einstein bed-load and sediment-transport formulas remain foundational in fluvial hydraulics. The son of Albert Einstein, he was long a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He came from a Jewish family.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science

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Hydraulic engineer and leading authority on sediment transport in rivers and fluvial phenomena

1904

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Earth & Planetary Science