Max Born (German: [bɔɐ̯n]; 11 December 1882 – 5 Januar 1970) wis a German-Jewish-Scots pheesicist an mathematician who wis instrumental in the development o quantum mechanics an wis awairdit the Nobel Prize for Pheesics in 1954. He moved to Ingland in 1933 as a refugee frae Nazi Germany, an tae Scotland in 1936. Frae 1936 tae his retirement in 1953 he wis a professor at the Varsity o Edinburgh.[2] His granddochter is the Australien singer Olivia Newton-John.
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Max Born |
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 Max Born (1882–1970) |
| Born | 11 December 1882(1882-12-11)
Breslau, German Empire |
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| Dee'd | 5 Januar 1970(1970-01-05) (aged 87)
Göttingen, Wast Germany |
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| Residence | Göttingen, Wast Germany |
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| Citizenship | German, Breetish |
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| Alma mater | Varsity o Göttingen |
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| Kent for | Born–Haber cycle
Born rigidity
Born coordinates
Born approximation
Born probability
Born–Infeld theory
Born–Oppenheimer approximation
Born's Rule
Born–Landé equation
Born–Huang approximation
Born–von Karman boundary condition
Born equation |
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| Hauf-marrae(s) | Hedwig (Hedi) Ehrenberg (m. 1913-1970; his daith; 3 bairns) |
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| Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1954)
Hughes Medal (1950)
Max Planck Medal (1948)
Fellae o the Ryal Society (1939) |
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| Scientific career |
| Fields | Pheesics |
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| Institutions | Varsity o Frankfurt am Main
Varsity o Göttingen
Varsity o Edinburgh |
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| Doctoral advisor | Carl Runge |
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| Other academic advisors | Woldemar Voigt
Karl Schwarzschild
Joseph Larmor
J. J. Thomson |
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| Doctoral students | Victor Frederick Weisskopf
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
Max Delbrück
Walter Elsasser
Friedrich Hund
Pascual Jordan
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Herbert S. Green
Cheng Kaijia
Siegfried Flügge
Edgar Krahn
Maurice Pryce
Antonio Rodríguez
Bertha Swirles
Paul Weiss
Peng Huanwu[1] |
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| Ither notable students | Emil Wolf |
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