What is Max Born?
{{Infobox Scientist | name = Max Born | image = Max Born.jpg | caption = Max Born | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|12|11|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wrocław|Breslau]], [[German Empire|Germany]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|1|5|1882|12|11|df=y}} | death_place = [[Göttingen]], [[West Germany|Germany]] | nationality = [[Germany|German]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] | field = [[Physicist]] | work_institution = [[Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main|University of Frankfurt am Main]]<br />[[University of Göttingen]]<br />[[University of Edinburgh]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Carl Runge]] | doctoral_students = [[Victor Frederick Weisskopf]]<br />[[Robert Oppenheimer]]<br />[[Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim]]<br />[[Max Delbrück]]<br />[[Walter Elsasser]]<br />[[Friedrich Hund]]<br />[[Pascual Jordan]]<br />[[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]]<br />[[Herbert S. Green]]<br />[[Cheng Kaijia]]<br /> [[Werner Heisenberg|Werner Karl Heisenberg]] | known_for = Foundations of [[quantum mechanics]] | prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1954) }} {{nobelprize|Physics}} '''Max Born''' (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a [[Germany|German]]-British Jewish [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]] who was important in the development of [[quantum mechanics]].<ref> * {{cite news |work=The Jewish Press |title=The Late Olivia Newton-John Wrote about her Jewish Grandfather Nobel Winner Max Born |url=https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/the-late-olivia-newton-john-wrote-about-her-jewish-grandfather-nobel-winner-max-born/2022/08/09 |last=Israel |first=David |date=August 9, 2022 |access-date=January 5, 2024}} * {{cite news |work=Jewish News |title=The Jewish family history of Olivia Newton-John |url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-jewish-family-history-of-olivia-newton-john |date=August 9, 2022 |access-date=January 5, 2025}} * {{cite news |work=The Times of Israel |title=‘Grease’ star Olivia Newton-John, granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/olivia-newton-john-star-of-grease