Max Born
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 Max Born |
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| Born | December 11, 1882 Breslau, Germany |
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| Died | January 5, 1970 (aged 87) Göttingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German - British |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Frankfurt am Main University of Göttingen University of Edinburgh |
| Academic advisor | Carl Runge |
| Notable 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 prizes | Nobel Prize in Physics (1954) |
| Religion | Lutheran |
Max Born (December 11, 1882 – January 5, 1970) was a German physicist and mathematician who was important for 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 won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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