Mathematician:Max Born
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Mathematician
German-Jewish physicist and mathematician who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.
Also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics.
Supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.
Nationality
German
History
- Born: 11 December 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)
- 1954: Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
- Died: 5 January 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Theorems and Definitions
- Born-Haber Cycle (with Fritz Haber)
- Born Rigidity
- Born Coordinates
- Born Approximation
- Born Series
- Born Probability
- Born-Infeld Theory (with Leopold Infeld)
- Born-Oppenheimer Approximation (with Julius Robert Oppenheimer)
- Born Rule
- Born-Landé Equation (with Alfred Landé)
- Born-Huang Approximation (with Huang Kun)
- Born-von Karman Boundary Condition (with Theodore von Kármán)
- Born Equation
Publications
- 1933: Moderne Physik
- 1935: Atomic Physics (translated by John Dougall)
- 1937: Atomic Physics, 2nd ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1944: Atomic Physics, 3rd ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1946: Atomic Physics, 4th ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1951: Atomic Physics, 5th ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1957: Atomic Physics, 6th ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1962: Atomic Physics, 7th ed. (translated by John Dougall)
- 1935: Atomic Physics (translated by John Dougall)
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Born, Max FRS (1882-1970)