Sunday, December 1, 2013
- Born: December 11, 1882, Wrocław, Poland
- Died: January 5, 1970, Göttingen, Germany
- Children: Irene Born, Gritli Born
- Education: University of Göttingen, Wrocław University, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Hughes Medal
- Books: Principles of Optics, Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices, The Born-Einstein Letters, The Restless Universe, Atomic Physics, Problems of Atomic Dynamics: Two Series of Lectures On: I. The Structure of the Atom (20 Lectures) II. The Lattice Theory of Rigid Bodies. (10 Lectures), Physics in My Generation, Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German 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 for his "fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
