Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the second child, and the first son, of renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) and his first wife Mileva Marić (1875–1948).
Hans Einstein received his Diploma in Civil Engineering and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He worked in Dortmund, Germany as a ste...
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Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the second child, and the first son, of renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) and his first wife Mileva Marić (1875–1948).
Hans Einstein received his Diploma in Civil Engineering and his Doctor of Technical Sciences degree from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He worked in Dortmund, Germany as a steel engineer before migrating to the United States in 1938. His main field of interest was the mechanics of the transportation of sediment by flowing water. His doctoral thesis was the seminal work on this subject. He joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1947 and later became Professor of Hydraulic Engineering.
Einstein's "The Bed-Load Function for Sediment Transportation in Open Channel Flows" was an important advance in the study of sedimentation transport which is still cited in undergraduate courses.
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