Awards & Winners

Max Born

Date of Birth 11-December-1882
Place of Birth Wrocław
(Poland, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Silesia)
Nationality United Kingdom, Germany
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Max Born was a German physicist and mathematician 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 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".

Awards by Max Born

Check all the awards nominated and won by Max Born.

1954


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction)

1950


Hughes Medal
(For his contributions to theoretical physics in general and to the development of quantum mechanics in particular.)