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Max Born
1882 – 1970
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryMax Born was a German–British theoretical physicist 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. He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
December 11, 1882
Wrocław
Date of death
January 5, 1970
Göttingen
Citizenship
German Reich · United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Occupations & fields
physicistmathematicianuniversity teachertheoretical physicistscientist
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal SocietyGreat Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyNobel Prize in PhysicsMax Planck MedalHughes MedalFellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Notable works
probability amplitudeBorn-Oppenheimer approximation
- Field and occupation
- nemecký fyzik
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