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.


Max Born
Max Born (1882–1970)
Born11 December 1882(1882-12-11)
Breslau, German Empire
Dee'd5 Januar 1970(1970-01-05) (aged 87)
Göttingen, Wast Germany
ResidenceGöttingen, Wast Germany
CitizenshipGerman, Breetish
Alma materVarsity o Göttingen
Kent forBorn–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
Hauf-marrae(s)Hedwig (Hedi) Ehrenberg (m. 1913-1970; his daith; 3 bairns)
AwairdsNobel Prize in Pheesics (1954)
Hughes Medal (1950)
Max Planck Medal (1948)
Fellae o the Ryal Society (1939)
Scientific career
FieldsPheesics
InstitutionsVarsity o Frankfurt am Main
Varsity o Göttingen
Varsity o Edinburgh
Doctoral advisorCarl Runge
Other academic advisorsWoldemar Voigt
Karl Schwarzschild
Joseph Larmor
J. J. Thomson
Doctoral studentsVictor 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]
Ither notable studentsEmil Wolf
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