Max Born
(1882-1970)
Awards
Grotius Medal, Munich, 1963[U75]
Nobel Prize for Physics, 1954[F76]
Hughes medal of the Royal Society, 1950[F76]
Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society, 1948[F76]
Macdougall-Brisbane and Gunning-Victoria Jubilee Prize, Royal Society
of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1945 and 1950[U75]
Fellow of the Royal Society, 1939
(UK)[M34]
Stokes medal of Cambridge University, 1936[F76]
Biographical
One of the founders of quantum mechanics, a term that he invented in 1924.
As professor in theoretical physics at the University of Berlin, he became
friends with Einstein. He moved to Frankfurt in 1919, and then to Göttingen
in 1921 where he became director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics.
In 1933, he lost his post when anti-Semitic laws came into effect, and
his family left for Britain where he became Stokes lecturer in Cambridge.
In 1936, he was Tait professor of natural philosophy at the University
of Edinburgh until retirement in 1953. In 1954, he returned to Bad Pyrmont
near Göttingen with his wife.[F76]
Place of birth: Breslau[O21]
Place of marriage: Grünau[M23]
Place of death and burial: Göttingen[M23]
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