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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-10-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000246b.htm person Born Max FRS AACR2 11 December 1882 5 January 1970 Place of Birth Breslau, Germany Place of Death Göttingen, West Germany Physicist Nobel laureate Max Born helped develop quantum mechanics, which forms the basis of modern atomic and nuclear physics. In quantum mechanics he interpreted wave functions statistically and developed the ideas of 3-dimensional particle motion. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1954 (shared with Walther Bothe) for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.

Born Breslau, Germany (now Poland), 11 December 1882. Died 1970. Educated Göttingen University (PhD 1907) and Cambridge (MA 1933). Privatexent, Göttingen University 1909; professor, University of Berlin 1915; professor, Frankfurt University 1919; professor, Göttingen University 1921; professor of natural philosophy, Edinburgh 1936-53, emeritus from 1953. Stokes medal, Cambridge 1934; Fellow, Royal Society 1939; Macdougall-Brisbane and Gunning-Victoria Jubilee Prize, Royal Society of Edinburgh 1945, 1950; Max Planck Medaille, Germany 1948; Hughes Medal, Royal Society 1950; Freedom of the City of Göttingen 1953; Nobel prize (with W. Bothe) 1954; Grotius Medal, Munich 1956.

1954 1954 Award - Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe) - for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction

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 'Born, Max', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Born, Max Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Max Born - Records Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science Max Born - Records MS 041 1962 Letter to Ralph W.V. Elliot [became Professor of English Language and Literature at the Univ of Adelaide and later Master of University House, ANU, Canberra] on the occasion of his promotion to readership in the University of Adelaide, 1962 [1 item, MS 42/1]. 1 item