Max Born - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1954
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Max Born

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1954
for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction
Together with: Walther Bothe
Citizenship
German Reich German Reich United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English, German
date of birth
12/11/1882
place of birth
Wrocław
date of death
1/5/1970
place of death
Göttingen
Lived
87 years

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educated at
  • University of Wrocław
    • start time: 1901
    • end time: 1904
  • University of Göttingen
    • end time: July 1906
    • start time: April 1904
  • University of Zurich
    • end time: 1903
    • start time: 1903
  • Heidelberg University
    • end time: 1902
    • start time: 1902
  • Gonville and Caius College
employer
  • University of Edinburgh
    • end time: 1952
    • start time: 1936
  • Goethe University Frankfurt
    • start time: 1919
    • end time: 1921
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    • end time: 1919
    • start time: 1914
  • University of Göttingen
    • start time: 1921
    • end time: 1933
  • Artillery Testing Commission
    • start time: 1915
    • end time: 1918
  • University of Göttingen
    • end time: 1914
    • start time: 1908
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1955
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/16/1939
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
  • Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Göttingen Eighteen
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
doctoral student
  • Maurice Pryce
  • Klaus Zweiling
  • Klaus Zweiling
  • Paul Weiss
  • Edgar Krahn
  • Victor Weisskopf
  • Alister McLellan
  • Herbert S. Green
  • Bertha Swirles
  • Otto Friedrich Bollnow
  • Siegfried Flügge
  • Sheila Christina Tinney
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Antonio Eduardo Rodríguez
  • Andrew Lees
  • Kathleen Sarginson
  • Friedrich Hund
  • Pascual Jordan
  • Maria Göppert Mayer
  • Carl Hermann
occupation
  • scientist
  • mathematician
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • physics
  • quantum mechanics
  • theoretical physics
notable work
  • Born-Oppenheimer approximation
  • probability amplitude
work location
  • Göttingen
position held
  • professor
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