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'''Max Born''' (1882-1970) was a [[German]] [[physicist]] who helped discover quantum mechanics in the 1920s. His major contribution was the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Born was one of two children in a [[Jewish]] family to parents Gustav Born and his wife. He was first educated at the [[König Wilhelm Gymnasium]], then at the University of Breslau, then Heidelberg University and then the University of Zurich. He taught theoretical physics at the University of Göttingen during 1921 – 1933. When the [[Nazi]] racial laws started taking effect in Germany in 1933 he fled to [[Britain]] where he taught principally at the University of [[Edinburgh]] from 1936 – 1953.
'''Max Born''' (1882-1970) was a [[Nobel Prize]] winning [[German]] [[physicist]] who helped discover quantum mechanics in the 1920s. His major contribution was the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-bio.html]. Born was one of two children in a [[Jewish]] family to parents Professor Gustav Born (anatomist and embryologist) and his wife Margarete (daughter of industrialists).
In 1921 he was able to give a very precise definition of the quantity of heat and the most satisfactory mathematical statement of the law of thermodynamics. Then in 1926 he collaborated with one of his student’s [[Werner Heisenberg]] to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg’s first laws of the new quantum theory. This was Born’s most well known work. Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.
Born was first educated at the [[König Wilhelm Gymnasium]], then at the University of Breslau, then Heidelberg University and then the University of Zurich. His first professorial appointment came at the University of Frankfurt-on-Main. He then taught theoretical physics at the University of Göttingen during 1921 – 1933. When the [[Nazi]] racial laws started taking effect in Germany in 1933 he fled to [[Britain]] where he taught principally at the University of [[Edinburgh]] from 1936 – 1953. During 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics[http://www.mbi-berlin.de/en/general/maxborn/index.html].
In 1921 he was able to give a very precise definition of the quantity of heat and the most satisfactory mathematical statement of the law of thermodynamics. Then in 1926 he collaborated with one of his student’s [[Werner Heisenberg]] to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg’s first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics). This was Born’s most well known work. Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.
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