Max Born

Max Born
Max Born
Born	11 December 1882(1882-12-11) Breslau, Germany
Died	5 January 1970(1970-01-05) (aged 87) Göttingen, Germany
Nationality	German - British
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Frankfurt am Main University of Göttingen University of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisor	Carl Runge
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
Known for	Foundations of quantum mechanics
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1954)

Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was important in the development of quantum mechanics. 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.

Other websites

• American Institute of Physics History Search: Max Born
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Max Born - full article
• Annotated bibliography for Max Born from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
• 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
• Max Born information from Nobel Winners site
• Nobel Laureate biography
• Papers of Professor Max Born (1882-1970) Held at the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division
• Recollections of Max Born, 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 (American Philosophical Society, 1967)