Max Born
Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British Jewish physicist and mathematician who was important in the development of quantum mechanics.[1][2] He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of important physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born became a British subject in 1939. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born's descendants include his grandaughter Olivia Newton-John and his great-granddaughter Chloe Rose Lattanzi.
Max Born | |
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 Max Born | |
| Born | 11 December 1882 |
| Died | 5 January 1970 (aged 87) |
| Nationality | German - British |
| Known for | Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1954) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Frankfurt am Main University of Göttingen University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral students | Victor Frederick Weisskopf Robert Oppenheimer Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim Max Delbrück Walter Elsasser Friedrich Hund Pascual Jordan Maria Goeppert-Mayer Herbert S. Green Cheng Kaijia Werner Karl Heisenberg |
Max Born Media
Solvay Conference, 1927. Born is second from the right in the second row, between Louis de Broglie and Niels Bohr.
Signed portrait of Max Born taken at Cyril Studio, Bangalore, dated 18 March 1936 — the day of his departure from the Indian Institute of Science. The portrait was a personal gift to mathematician B. S. Madhava Rao, with whom Born collaborated on nonlinear electromagnetic field theory. From the B.S. Madhava Rao family archive.
Max Born and his wife Hedwig (Hedi) Born in Bangalore, 1935–36. From the B. S. Madhava Rao family archive.
Born's gravestone in Göttingen is inscribed with the canonical commutation relation, which he put on rigorous mathematical footing.
Einstein's theory of relativity, 1922 (US edition of Die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins und ihre physikalischen Grundlagen, 1920)
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References
- ↑ * Israel, David (August 9, 2022). "The Late Olivia Newton-John Wrote about her Jewish Grandfather Nobel Winner Max Born". The Jewish Press. https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/the-late-olivia-newton-john-wrote-about-her-jewish-grandfather-nobel-winner-max-born/2022/08/09. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- "The Jewish family history of Olivia Newton-John". Jewish News. August 9, 2022. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-jewish-family-history-of-olivia-newton-john. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- "‘Grease’ star Olivia Newton-John, granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73". The Times of Israel. August 9, 2022. https://www.timesofisrael.com/olivia-newton-john-star-of-grease-dies-at-73. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- Olivia Newton John’s Grandfather was a Nobel-Prize Winning Jewish Physicist. Aish (August 10, 2022). Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- "Meet Oppenheimer's Jewish Mentor Who Was Fired By Hitler And Hired By CV Raman". Times Now. November 9, 2024. https://www.timesnownews.com/lifestyle/people/meet-oppenheimers-jewish-mentor-who-was-fired-by-hitler-and-hired-by-cv-raman-article-115094144. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ↑ The wide-ranging family history of Max Born, G. V. R. Born, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2002
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- American Institute of Physics History Search: Max Born Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Max Born - full article
- Annotated bibliography for Max Born from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
- Freeview video of Gustav Born (son of Max) with conversation and film on Gustav's memories of his father by the Vega Science Trust
- Max Born’s Life Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Max Born information from Nobel Winners site
- Nobel Laureate biography Archived 2004-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Papers of Professor Max Born (1882-1970) Held at the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division
- Recollections of Max Born[dead link], by Emil Wolf, in Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 227, Numbers 1-2. (Biographical tribute)
- Kuhn, Thomas S., John L. Heilbron, Paul Forman, and Lini Allen Sources for History of Quantum Physics Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine (American Philosophical Society, 1967)