Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German born physicist and mathematician 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 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Born was born into a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at Born's birth was in the Prussian Pro...
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Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German born physicist and mathematician 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 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Born was born into a Jewish family in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at Born's birth was in the Prussian Province of Silesia. He was one of two children borne to Gustav Born, (b. 22 April 1850, Kempen, d. 6 July 1900, Breslau), an anatomist and embryologist, and Margarete Kauffmann (b. 22 January 1856, Tannhausen, d. 29 August 1886, Breslau), from a Silesian family of industrialists. Gustav and Margarethe married on 7 May 1881. Max Born had a sister called Käthe (b. 5 March 1884), and a half-brother called Wolfgang (b. 21 October 1892), from his father's second marriage (m. 13 September 1891) with Bertha Lipstein. His mother died when Max Born was...
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