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Max Born, German Physicist

Max Born (December 11, 1882 - January 5, 1970) was a German-British physicist and mathematician. From 1915-19 he was extraordinarius professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Albert Einstein. In 1921, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function in the Schrodinger equation of quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954, three decades later. Though a Lutheran he was classified as a Jew by the Nazi racial laws due to his ancestry, and was stripped of his professorship. In 1933 he emigrated from Germany to the UK. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1937. Much of the theoretical power behind the development of the first atomic bomb was due to many of those surrounding him at Gottingen and working on atomic physics and quantum mechanics: Delbruck, Fermi, Heisenberg, Goeppert-Mayer, Herzberg, Pauli, Wigner went on to win Nobel Prizes. His books atomic physics and optics are considered classics in their fields which are still in print. He died in 1970 at the age of 87.
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Max Born, German Physicist
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Max Born (December 11, 1882 - January 5, 1970) was a German-British physicist and mathematician. From 1915-19 he was extraordinarius professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Albert Einstein. In 1921, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function in the Schrodinger equation of quantum mechanics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954, three decades later. Though a Lutheran he was classified as a Jew by the Nazi racial laws due to his ancestry, and was stripped of his professorship. In 1933 he emigrated from Germany to the UK. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1937. Much of the theoretical power behind the development of the first atomic bomb was due to many of those surrounding him at Gottingen and working on atomic physics and quantum mechanics: Delbruck, Fermi, Heisenberg, Goeppert-Mayer, Herzberg, Pauli, Wigner went on to win Nobel Prizes. His books atomic physics and optics are considered classics in their fields which are still in print. He died in 1970 at the age of 87.
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