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Max Born

1882 - 1970

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Max Born (German: [ˈmaks ˈbɔʁn] ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British theoretical physicist 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 shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Born is the 65th most popular physicist (down from 33rd in 2019), the 166th most popular biography from Germany (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Physicist.

Max Born was a German-born physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Max Born ranks 65 out of 851. Before him are Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. After him are Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Philipp Lenard, and Lev Landau.

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Among people born in 1882, Max Born ranks 9. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, and Sigrid Undset. After him are Georgi Dimitrov, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Emmy Noether, Günther von Kluge, and Percy Williams Bridgman. Among people deceased in 1970, Max Born ranks 12. Before him are António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, and Alexander Kerensky. After him are Nelly Sachs, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Édouard Daladier, Otto Heinrich Warburg, François Mauriac, and Paul Celan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Born ranks 166 out of 7,253. Before him are Walter Gropius (1883), Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943), Agrippina the Younger (15), George I of Great Britain (1660), Alfred Jodl (1890), and Meister Eckhart (1260). After him are Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (973), Otto Hahn (1879), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926), Carl Orff (1895), Franz von Papen (1879), and Olaf Scholz (1958).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Max Born ranks 7. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Georg Ohm (1789), and Heinrich Hertz (1857). After him are Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Georg Bednorz (1950), and Otto von Guericke (1602).

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