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.

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• {{MacTutor Biography|id=Born}}
• Max Born information from Nobel Winners site
• Nobel Laureate biography