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Born, Max, 1882-1970

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Personal name headingBorn, Max, 1882-1970
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Birth date1882-12-11
Death date1970-01-05
Place of birthWrocław (Poland)
Place of deathGöttingen (Germany)
Field of activityQuantum theory
AffiliationUniversität Frankfurt am Main
Universität Göttingen
University of Edinburgh
Profession or occupationPhysicists
Found inHis Untersuchungen über die skabilitat ...
Born-Einstein letters, c2005: CIP t.p. (Max Born) data sheet (b. Dec. 11, 1882) pub. info (b. 1882; d. 1970; won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954)
Experiment and theory in physics, 2014: back cover (won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics)
Encyclopaedia Britannica, via WWW, May 20, 2020 (Max Born; born December 11, 1882 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland); died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany; German physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954 with Walther Bothe for his probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics; he received a doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1907; in 1919 Born was appointed to a full professorship at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and in 1921 he accepted the position of professor of theoretical physics at the University of Göttingen; Born remained at Göttingen until April 1933, when all Jews were dismissed from their academic posts in Germany; he and his family went to England, where he accepted a temporary lectureship at Cambridge; in 1936 he was appointed Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh; he became a British citizen in 1939 and remained at Edinburgh until his retirement in 1953; the next year, he and his wife moved to Bad Pyrmont, a small spa town near Göttingen)
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