Hans Albert Einstein

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Hans Albert Einstein (born May 14, 1904 in Bern , † July 26, 1973 in Woods Hole , Massachusetts ) was Professor of Hydraulics at the University of California, Berkeley . As the son of Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Marić , he was a Swiss citizen and later also became a US citizen .

Life

Hans Albert Einstein attended elementary school in Zurich and began studying engineering at the ETH Zurich . Here he obtained his diploma in 1926 and his doctorate in 1936.

In 1927 he married Frieda Knecht, teacher of German and literature at the ETH Zurich. From this marriage, the children Bernhard Caesar Einstein (1930-2008) and Klaus Einstein (1932-1938) emerged. Klaus Einstein died of diphtheria shortly after emigrating to the USA . The daughter Evelyn (1941–2011) was adopted. Immediately after graduating, Hans Albert worked as an engineer for steel construction in Dortmund .

In the USA, Einstein continued his work on the transport of sediments, which he had already started during his time in Switzerland and Germany and which made up part of his doctoral thesis. He first worked at the Agriculture Experiment Station in Clemson, South Carolina (1938-1943), and later for the US Department of Agriculture Cooperative Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in California . One of his most important publications on bed load transport in flowing waters comes from this time .

In 1947, Hans Albert Einstein received an assistant professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, where he later also became a full professor of hydraulics. In 1970 he retired. During a visit to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts in June 1973, he suffered a heart attack, of which he died on July 26th.

Like his brother Eduard , Hans Albert in particular suffered greatly from the separation of his parents, after which the sons lived with their mother in Switzerland. However, the father continued to visit her. The relationship with the father was long considered disturbed, but improved over time.

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  1. ↑ Hubert Chanson, Patrick James: Teaching Case Studies in Reservoir Siltation and Catchment Erosion. (pdf, 1.1 MB) In: International Journal of Engineering Education 14/4. October 18, 2005, pp. 265-272, footnote 12 , archived from the original on March 27, 2006 ; accessed on August 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Einstein, Hans Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-American civil engineer, professor, son of Albert Einstein
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1973
Place of death Woods Hole , Massachusetts