Max Born

Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British physicist and mathematician who was important in 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 became a British subject in 1939. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Max Born
Max Born
Born	(1882-12-11)11 December 1882 Breslau, Germany
Died	5 January 1970(1970-01-05) (aged 87) Göttingen, Germany
Nationality	German - British
Known for	Foundations of quantum mechanics
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1954)
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	University of Frankfurt am Main University of Göttingen University of Edinburgh
Doctoral advisor	Carl Runge
Doctoral 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

He was of Jewish descent.^[1]

Born's descendants include his grandaughter Olivia Newton-John and his great-granddaughter Chloe Rose Lattanzi.

References

1. The wide-ranging family history of Max Born, G. V. R. Born, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2002

Other websites

• American Institute of Physics History Search: Max Born Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, Max Born - full article
• Annotated bibliography for Max Born from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
• Freeview video of Gustav Born (son of Max) with conversation and film on Gustav's memories of his father by the Vega Science Trust
• Max Born’s Life Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Max Born information from Nobel Winners site
• Nobel Laureate biography Archived 2004-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Papers of Professor Max Born (1882-1970) Held at the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division
• Recollections of Max Born^{[permanent dead link]}, by Emil Wolf, in Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 227, Numbers 1-2. (Biographical tribute)
• Kuhn, Thomas S., John L. Heilbron, Paul Forman, and Lini Allen Sources for History of Quantum Physics Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine (American Philosophical Society, 1967)