The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954
Awarded on: 1954-11-03
"for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
Affiliations:
- Edinburgh University – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Max Born
Born: 1882-12-11 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)
Gender: male
Field: German-British physicist (1882–1970)
Biography
Max Born was a German-British physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".