Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19 1918 - July 28 2000) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. Pais earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht just prior to a Nazi ban on Jewish participation in Dutch universities during World War II. When the Nazis began the forced relocation of Dutch Jews, he went into hiding, but was later arrested and saved only by the end of the war.