Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

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Max Born was a physicist born on December 11, 1882, and died on January 5, 1970. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Born received one Nobel Prize. He had an Erdős number of 3.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1954
“for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction”
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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Jacob
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Place of birth: Wrocław
Place of death: Göttingen
Father: Gustav Born
Occupation: theoretical physicist
Position held: professor
Educated at: Gonville and Caius College
Languages spoken: English language
Religion: Lutheranism
Notable work: Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Doctoral advisor: Carl David Tolmé Runge
Student of: J. J. Thomson
Doctoral student: Otto Friedrich Bollnow
Field of work: quantum mechanics
Conflict: World War I
Military branch: Imperial German Army
Image: Max Born.jpg
Work location: Göttingen
Residence: Bad Pyrmont

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topic's main category: Category:Max Born
member of: National Academy of Sciences
place of burial: Göttingen City Cemetery
Commons category: Max Born
date of birth: 1882-12-11
date of death: 1970-01-05
Erdős number: 3
student: Wolfgang Pauli
Commons gallery: Max Born
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
ethnic group: Jewish people
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
interested in: physics
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name in native language: Max Born
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
archives at: Berlin State Library

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Encyclopedic overview

Max Born ( German: [ˈmaks ˈbɔʁn] ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) 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."

Born entered the University of Göttingen in 1904, where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the subject of the stability of elastic wires and tapes, winning the university's Philosophy Faculty Prize. In 1905, he began researching special relativity with Minkowski, and subsequently wrote his habilitation thesis on the Thomson model of the atom. A chance meeting with Fritz Haber in Berlin in 1918 led to discussion of how an ionic compound is formed when a metal reacts with a halogen, which is now known as the Born–Haber cycle.

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