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| Max Born | |
|---|---|
 Max Born | |
| Born | 11 December 1882 Breslau, Germany |
| Died | 5 January 1970 (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-British 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.
References
- ↑ The wide-ranging family history of Max Born, G. V. R. Born, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2002
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)
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