Max Born
Max Born (; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British 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 1930s. Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".Born entered the University of Göttingen in 1904, where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. He wrote his PhD thesis on the subject of the stability of elastic wires and tapes, winning the university's Philosophy Faculty Prize. In 1905, he began researching special relativity with Minkowski, and subsequently wrote his habilitation thesis on the Thomson model of the atom. A chance meeting with Fritz Haber in Berlin in 1918 led to discussion of how an ionic compound is formed when a metal reacts with a halogen, which is today known as the Born–Haber cycle.
In World War I he was originally placed as a radio operator, but his specialist knowledge led to his being moved to research duties on sound ranging. In 1921 Born returned to Göttingen, where he arranged another chair for his long-time friend and colleague James Franck. Under Born, Göttingen became one of the world's foremost centres for physics. In 1925 Born and Werner Heisenberg formulated the matrix mechanics representation of quantum mechanics. The following year, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ψ*ψ in the Schrödinger equation, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. His influence extended far beyond his own research. Max Delbrück, Siegfried Flügge, Friedrich Hund, Pascual Jordan, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, Robert Oppenheimer, and Victor Weisskopf all received their PhD degrees under Born at Göttingen, and his assistants included Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Gerhard Herzberg, Friedrich Hund, Wolfgang Pauli, Léon Rosenfeld, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner.
In January 1933, the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, and Born, who was Jewish, was suspended from his professorship at the University of Göttingen. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he took a job at St John's College, Cambridge, and wrote a popular science book, ''The Restless Universe'', as well as ''Atomic Physics'', which soon became a standard textbook. In October 1936, he became the Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where, working with German-born assistants E. Walter Kellermann and Klaus Fuchs, he continued his research into physics. Born became a naturalised British subject on 31 August 1939, one day before World War II broke out in Europe. He remained in Edinburgh until 1952. He retired to Bad Pyrmont, in West Germany, and died in a hospital in Göttingen on 5 January 1970. Provided by Wikipedia
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George Sand's Sprache in dem Romane Les maîtres Sonneurs by Born, Max
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George Sand's Sprache in dem Romane "Les Maîtres Sonneurs". I. Teil by Born, Max
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Beiträge zur Bestimmung der Lichtbrechungsverhältnisse doppeltbrechender Krystalle durch Prismenbeobachtungen by Born, Max
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Optik : ein Lehrbuch der elektromagnetischen Lichttheoris ein Lehrbuch der elektromagnetischen Lichttheoris / by Born, Max
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Die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins und ihre physikalischen Grundlagen Gemeinverständlich dargestellt / by Born, Max
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Der Aufbau der Materie Drei Aufsätze über moderne Atomistik und Elektronentheorie / by Born, Max
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Beiträge zur Bestimmung der Lichtbrechungsverhältnisse doppeltbrechender Krystalle durch Prismenbeobachtungen by Born, Max 1863-
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Nachträge zu A. H. Murray A new English dictionary on historical principles. Teil I by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Natural philosophy of cause and chance being the Waynflete lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, in Hilary Term, 1948 by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Dynamik der Kristallgitter mit einer Tafel by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Probleme der Atomdynamik dreißig Vorlesungen, gehalten im Wintersemester 1925 - 26 am Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Born, Max 1882-1970
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<<The>> restless universe by Born, Max 1882-1970
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<<Die>> Relativitätstheorie Einsteins und ihre physikalischen Grundlagen by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Moderne Physik sieben Vorträge über Materie und Strahlung by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Atomic physics by Born, Max 1882-1970
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Der Aufbau der Materie : drei Aufsätze über moderne Atomistik und Elektronentheorie drei Aufsätze über moderne Atomistik und Elektronentheorie / by Born, Max, 1882-1970
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The constitution of matter : modern atomic and electron theories / by Born, Max, 1882-1970
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