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Max Born was born on 11 December 1882 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at the time of Born's birth was part of the Prussian Province of Silesia in the German Empire, to a family of Jewish descent.
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.
Biographical. Max Born was born in Breslau on the 11th December, 1882, to Professor Gustav Born, anatomist and embryologist, and his wife Margarete, née Kauffmann, who was a member of a Silesian family of industrialists.
Max Born was a German physicist who won a share of the Nobel prize in 1954 “for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the...
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.
Feb 13, 2024 · Max Born was an influential physicist and mathematician whose work was crucial to the development of quantum mechanics. He made notable contributions to the fields of solid-state physics and optics and was a mentor to many prominent physicists.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 was divided equally between Max Born "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction" and Walther Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith"
