Max Born
Max Born 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. He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."
Background
- Born in
- Wrocław
- Educated at
- Heidelberg UniversityUniversity of GöttingenUniversity of ZurichUniversity of WrocławGonville and Caius College
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Max Planck Medal🏆 Hughes Medal🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Carl David Tolmé Runge
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Maria Goeppert Mayer
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Trending topics shown first"If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equat…"
"I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do n…"
"It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom."
"The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones."
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world."
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Timeline
1882
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Birth1970
Died
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