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Hans Albert Einstein

Swiss-american engineer and educator (1904-1973).

Born May 14th, 1904 in Bern.

Died July 26th, 1973 at 69 years old in Woods Hole (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
engineer, physicist, teacher

Hans Albert Einstein, son of Albert Einstein and a professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, passed away on July 26, 1973 at 69 years old. Hans Albert Einstein had a deep appreciation for the sciences, which was inspired by his world-renowned father. He attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and received his degree in Civil Engineering in 1923. In 1926, Hans Albert joined the faculty at the ETH Zurich and two following year moved to the US and did work at Cornell. In the late 1930s, he studied at the California Institute of Technology and earned his PhD in Hydraulic Engineering in 1940. He then joined the faculty at University of California Berkeley where he would remain for the next two decades. Hans Albert Einstein also worked for the National Defense Research Committee, and in 1945 wrote a widely-read report on water and power in the American West. After retirement in 1966, Einstein remained at UC Berkeley as a professor emeritus and, in 1969, received the ASCE Civil Engineering Award for Watershed Research. Hans Albert Einstein’s impactful life and legacy will be remembered by many.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi