[[Image:Max Born.jpg|thumb|300|right|Max Born, Nobel Prize winning German physicist]]
[[Image:Max Born.jpg|thumb|300|right|Max Born, Nobel Prize winning German physicist]]
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'''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.
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'''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.
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==Teaching appointments==
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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<ref>[http://www.mbi-berlin.de/en/general/maxborn/index.html Max Born Institute - Vita of Max Born]</ref>.
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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.<ref>[http://www.mbi-berlin.de/en/general/maxborn/index.html Max Born Institute - Vita of Max Born]</ref>