Max Born

Max Born (born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physicist of Jewish heritage. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born was the only child of Gustav Born and Margarete Kauffmann, and was the father of G. V. R. Born, and the maternal grandfather of British singer and actress Olivia Newton-John. He was one of the 11 signatories to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto.

Career

In 1919 after a period in the German army he became a professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and then professor at Göttingen, 1921. During this period, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ?*? in the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954, some three decades later.

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1919 - Frankfurt am Main - Göttingen - 1921 - Probability density function - Schrödinger equation - Quantum mechanics - Nobel Prize in Physics

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In 1933 he left Germany to escape anti-Semitism and took up a position (Stokes Lecturer) at the University of Cambridge. From 1936 to 1953 he was Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He became a British subject and a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1939.

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1933 - Anti-Semitism - University of Cambridge - 1936 - 1953 - University of Edinburgh - Royal Society of London - 1939

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Albert Einstein was a friend of Born's, and it was in a letter to him in 1926 that Einstein made his famous remark regarding quantum mechanics, often paraphrased as "God does not play dice with the universe."

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Max and Hedwig Born retired to Bad Pyrmont (10km south of Hamelin (Hameln)) in Germany.

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