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Max Born FRS, FRSE ( German pronunciation: [ˈmaks ˈbɔʁn] ⓘ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.
Max Born (born Dec. 11, 1882, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died Jan. 5, 1970, Göttingen, W.Ger.) was a German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Walther Bothe for his probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Learn about the life and achievements of Max Born, a German-born physicist who made groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechanics and crystal theory. He taught at several universities, including Göttingen, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, and received many honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize in 1954.
Max Born was a Nobel prize winning physicist whose founding contributions to quantum theory, including the “Born rule”, are central to quantum mechanics.
Max Born was a Polish-born mathematician who worked in Cambridge and received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 for his work on Quantum Mechanics. View ten larger pictures. Biography. Max Born was born into a Jewish family. His father, Gustav Born, was a distinguished medical professor of embryology at the University of Breslau.
Max Born. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954. Born: 11 December 1882, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) Died: 5 January 1970, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany) Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Max Born, (born Dec. 11, 1882, Breslau, Ger.—died Jan. 5, 1970, Göttingen, W.Ger.), German physicist. He taught theoretical physics at the University of Göttingen from 1921 to 1933, when he fled to Britain. There he taught principally at the University of Edinburgh (1936–53).
