Max Born
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954.
Born: 11, Dec, 1882, Breslau (now Wroclaw), Germany (now Poland)
Died: 5, Jan, 1970, Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany)
Prize motivation: "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2