Max Born

Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British Jewish physicist and mathematician who was important in the development of quantum mechanics.* 



 The wide-ranging family history of Max Born, G. V. R. Born, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 2002 He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of important physicists in the 1920s and 30s. Born became a British subject in 1939. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics. Born's descendants include his grandaughter Olivia Newton-John and his great-granddaughter Chloe Rose Lattanzi.
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 American Institute of Physics History Search: Max Born 
 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Max Born - full article
 Annotated bibliography for Max Born from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues 
 Freeview video of Gustav Born (son of Max) with conversation and film on Gustav's memories of his father by the Vega Science Trust
 Max Born’s Life 
 Max Born information from Nobel Winners site
 Nobel Laureate biography 
 Papers of Professor Max Born (1882-1970) Held at the Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division
 Recollections of Max Born, by Emil Wolf, in  Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 227, Numbers 1-2. (Biographical tribute)
 Kuhn, Thomas S., John L. Heilbron, Paul Forman, and Lini Allen Sources for History of Quantum Physics  (American Philosophical Society, 1967)

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