Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

The notion that the motion of atomic nuclei and electrons can be separated

approach to analyzing reaction energies

in quantum mechanics, the rule that the probability of observing an eigenvalue is the square of the modulus of the inner product between the quantum state and the eigenstate corresponding to the eigenvalue

lunar crater

Formula for lattice energy

Mathematical assumption used in solid-state physics models

set of equations describing the dynamics of a system of many interacting particles

scattering theory

nonlinear generalization of electrodynamics with a maximum field strength

equation for Gibbs free energy of solvation

Institute of Physics (IOP) and German Physical Society (DPG) award

Optical Society award

coordinates to capture characteristics of rotating frames of reference