Max Born | |
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Max Born | |
| Born | 11 December 1882 |
| Died | 5 January 1970 (aged 87) |
| 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 |
Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British Jewish 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. Born's descendants include his grandaughter Olivia Newton-John and his great-granddaughter Chloe Rose Lattanzi.