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Max Born
Max Born was a German–British theoretical 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. He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistica…
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Born 11 December 1882 · Died 5 January 1970 · Q58978
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2026· 24 entries
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1970· 19 entries
Died 1970-01-05.
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“Sono stato molto lieto che tu ― sia pure stranamente in ritardo ― sia stato insignito del premio Nobel per i tuoi fondamentali contributi alla moderna teoria dei quanti. In particolare, la tua rigorosa interpretazione statistica ha chiarito le idee in modo decisivo. (Albert Einstein)”
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“Dio sa che non sono amico della teoria della probabilità, l'ho odiata dal primo momento in cui il nostro caro amico Max Born l'ha concepita. (Erwin Schrödinger)”
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“W. Pauli è ora mio assistente; è straordinariamente intelligente e capace.”
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“I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics). It has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity), which are applicable far beyond physics.”
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“[Riferendosi allo spin delle particelle] [...] non bisognerebbe immaginare che nella natura della materia vi sia qualcosa che effettivamente ruoti.”
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“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.”
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“[Parlando di Erwin Schrödinger subito dopo la sua morte] La sua vita privata sembrava strana alla gente borghese come noi. Tutto questo però non aveva alcuna importanza. Era un uomo adorabile, spiritoso, dal carattere forte e indipendente, gentile e generoso, e aveva una mente perfetta ed efficiente.”
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“La fisica è la natura dell'indeterminatezza e del caso, e quindi è un problema di statistica.”
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“англ. «Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance» — сочинение, посвящённое философским вопросам вероятностных процессов, особенно в квантовой механике.”
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“If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.”
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“Einstein sarebbe uno dei massimi fisici teorici di tutti i tempi anche se non avesse scritto una sola riga sulla relatività.”
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“I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. We do not find signposts at crossroads, but our own scouts erect them, to help the rest.”
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“Abbiamo due possibilità. O usiamo le onde in spazi più che tridimensionali... o rimaniamo nello spazio tridimensionale, ma rinunciamo alla semplice immagine dell'ampiezza d'onda come un'ordinaria grandezza fisica, e la rimpiazziamo con un concetto matematico completamente astratto... al quale possiamo avere accesso.”
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“The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.”
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“Variants (these could be paraphrases or differing translations): The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.”
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“The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it, seems to me the deepest root of all that is evil in the world.”
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“p. 125. Link: E. D. Adrian, The Physical Background of Perception @Archive.org”
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“It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.”
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1969· 1 entry
“Ein materieller Stab ist physikalisch nicht ein räumliches Ding, sondern durchaus ein raum-zeitliches Gebilde." - über die Relativitätstheorie, "Die Relativitätstheorie Einsteins", Springer 1969, ISBN 3-540-04540-6, S. 218”
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1968· 1 entry
“p. 230, also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 183”
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1963· 1 entry
“Statement of 1963, as quoted in Schrodinger : Life and Thought (1992) by Walter J. Moore, p. 1”
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1961· 1 entry
“The Voyage into the Dark (1961); also in My Life and Views (1968), p. 154”
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959).
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1955· 1 entry
Became one of signatories to the Russell–Einstein Manifesto
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1954· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1954).
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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1954).
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Heisenberg wrote an article honouring Planck for his insight in 1900, in which he credited Born and Jordan for the final mathematical formulation of matrix mechanics and Heisenberg went on to stress how great their contr
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Received the Prize "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction," something that he had worked on alone
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“The close of his Nobel lecture: "The Statistical Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics" (11 December 1954)”
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1953).
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1951· 2 entries
Wolf began as Born's private assistant on the book; it was eventually published in 1959 by Robert Maxwell's Pergamon Press
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“Einstein's Statistical Theories" in Albert Einstein : Philosopher-Scientist (1951) edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp, p. 176”
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1950· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1950).
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1948· 3 entries
Won Max Planck Medal (1948).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1948).
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“Being the The Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford in Hilary Term 1948. A source.”
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1947· 1 entry
And 1948 for his work on crystal lattices, and over the years, he had also been nominated for his work on solid-state physics, quantum mechanics, and other topics
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1944· 1 entry
Awarded Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1944).
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1943· 1 entry
“Experiment and Theory in Physics (1943), p. 44”
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1942· 1 entry
Awarded Makdougall Brisbane Prize (1942).
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1939).
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1937· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1937).
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1928· 2 entries
And completed his habilitation under him in 1929
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Einstein nominated Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan for the Nobel Prize in Physics, but Heisenberg alone won the 1932 Prize "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led to the discovery of the all
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1927· 1 entry
“[Rivolgendosi a Schrödinger nel maggio del 1927] Fin dal principio Heisenberg non ha mai condiviso la mia opinione che la sua meccanica ondulatoria sia fisicamente più significativa della nostra meccanica quantistica.”
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1925· 2 entries
Born and Werner Heisenberg formulated the matrix mechanics representation of quantum mechanics
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Born and Heisenberg formulated the matrix mechanics representation of quantum mechanics
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1923· 3 entries
“[A proposito di Heisenberg] È almeno altrettanto dotato quanto Pauli, e come persona è più gentile e simpatico. Tra l'altro suona molto bene il pianoforte. (7 aprile 1923)”
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Where he completed his habilitation under Born in 1924, and became a Privatdozent there
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“[A seguito della Prima Guerra Mondiale] Penso spesso a come fare per impedire che un giorno mio figlio si trovi a dover partecipare a una guerra di rivincita. Ma sono troppo anziano per l'America, dove del resto c'è stata una ventata di follia bellicista ancora più violenta che da noi. (7 aprile 1923)”
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1922· 2 entries
When lecturing in the United States at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Sommerfeld sent his student Werner Heisenberg to be Born's assistant
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And an English translation was published in 1924
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1921· 1 entry
Born returned to Göttingen, where he arranged another chair for his long-time friend and colleague James Franck
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1920· 1 entry
Of which Einstein received the proofs before publication
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1919· 2 entries
Elisabeth Bormann joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics as his assistant
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And 1920, Born became displeased about the large number of objections against Einstein's relativity, and gave speeches in the winter of 1919 in support of Einstein
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1918· 1 entry
Led to discussion of how an ionic compound is formed when a metal reacts with a halogen, which is now known as the Born–Haber cycle
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1916· 1 entry
“Die Quanten sind doch eine hoffnungslose Schweinerei!" - Albert Einstein und Max Born: Briefwechsel 1916 bis 1955, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1969, S. 34”
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1914· 3 entries
Received a letter from Max Planck explaining that a new professor extraordinarius Chair of Theoretical Physics had been created at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin
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Singer and actress Olivia Newton-John was a daughter of Irene (1914–2003), while Gustav is the father of musician and academic Georgina Born, actor Max Born (Fellini Satyricon) and filmmaker Carey Born who are thus also Max's grandchildren.
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And Margarethe (Gritli), born in 1915, and a son, Gustav, born in 1921
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1912· 2 entries
And Born had used them in his work on the lattices theory of crystals in 1921
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Born met Hedwig (Hedi) Ehrenberg, the daughter of a Leipzig University law professor, and a friend of Carl Runge's daughter Iris
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1904–1906).
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1905· 2 entries
Began researching special relativity with Minkowski, and subsequently wrote his habilitation thesis on the Thomson model of the atom
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Albert Einstein published his paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies about special relativity
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1904· 2 entries
Where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski
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Studied at University of Wrocław (1901–1904).
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1903· 1 entry
Studied at University of Zurich (1903–1903).
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1902· 1 entry
Studied at Heidelberg University (1902–1902).
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1884· 1 entry
And a half-brother—Wolfgang—from his father's second wife, Bertha Lipstein
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-12-11.
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