Max Born - Revision history

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Aschlafly: /* Achievements */ Born was reportedly quite disappointed not to be honored with at least a shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, which was given to Heisenberg. But in 1954, he was granted a shared Nobel Prize for Physics (with Walther Bothe) for their

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Achievements: Born was reportedly quite disappointed not to be honored with at least a shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, which was given to Heisenberg. But in 1954, he was granted a shared Nobel Prize for Physics (with Walther Bothe) for their

Aschlafly: Max Born was the recipient of a famous letter by Albert Einstein that declared about quantum mechanics in December 1926

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Max Born was the recipient of a famous letter by Albert Einstein that declared about quantum mechanics in December 1926

Aschlafly: One of Born's granddaughters was the popular singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.

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One of Born's granddaughters was the popular singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.

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 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]].  His most famous achievement came in 1926 when he collaborated with one of his students, [[Werner Heisenberg]], to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg's first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics).
-Born was reportedly quite disappointed not to be honored with at least a shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, which was given to Heisenberg.  But in 1954, he was granted a shared Nobel Prize for Physics (with Walther Bothe) for their work on the statistical interpretation of quantum theory.<ref>https://www.famousscientists.org/max-born/</ref>
+Born was reportedly quite disappointed not to be honored with at least a shared Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, which was given to Heisenberg.  But in 1954, Born was granted a shared Nobel Prize for Physics (with Walther Bothe) for their work on the statistical interpretation of quantum theory.<ref>https://www.famousscientists.org/max-born/</ref>
 Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.

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 ==Achievements==
-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]].  His most famous achievement came in 1926 when he collaborated with one of his students, [[Werner Heisenberg]] to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg's first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics).
+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]].  His most famous achievement came in 1926 when he collaborated with one of his students, [[Werner Heisenberg]], to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg's first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics).
 Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.

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		+	Max Born was the recipient of a famous letter by [[Albert Einstein]] that declared about [[quantum mechanics]] in December 1926:
		+	{{cquote\|The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One. I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.<ref>https://aeon.co/ideas/what-einstein-meant-by-god-does-not-play-dice (this source italicizes the "He" but others do not)</ref>}}

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 [[Image:Max Born.jpg|thumb|300|right|Max Born, Nobel Prize winning German physicist]]
-'''Max Born''' (1882-1970) was a [[Nobel Prize]] winning [[German]] [[Jewish]] [[physicist]] who helped discover [[quantum mechanics]] in the 1920s.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-bio.html Nobel Prize - Max Born biography]</ref> Born was one of two children to parents Professor Gustav Born (anatomist and embryologist) and his wife Margarete (daughter of industrialists). Born was first educated at the [[Gymnasium|König Wilhelm Gymnasium]], then at the University of [[Wrocław]], then Heidelberg University and then the University of Zurich.
+'''Max Born''' (1882-1970) was a [[Nobel Prize]]-winning [[German]] [[Lutheran]]-convert [[physicist]] who helped discover [[quantum mechanics]] in the 1920s.<ref>[http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-bio.html Nobel Prize - Max Born biography]</ref> Born into a [[Jewish]] family as one of two children to parents Professor Gustav Born (anatomist and embryologist) and his wife Margarete (daughter of industrialists). Born was first educated at the [[Gymnasium|König Wilhelm Gymnasium]], then at the University of [[Wrocław]], then Heidelberg University and then the University of Zurich.
 ==Teaching appointments==

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 ==Achievements==
-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]].  His most famous achievement came in 1926 when he collaborated with one of his students, [[Werner Heisenberg]] to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg’s first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics).
+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]].  His most famous achievement came in 1926 when he collaborated with one of his students, [[Werner Heisenberg]] to develop a mathematical formulation that would describe Heisenberg's first laws of the new quantum theory (matrix mechanics).
 Born died January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, Germany.

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