External Web sites
- Nobelprize.org - Biography of Max Born Brief biographies of Max Born and Walther Bothe. Includes a presentation speech outlining their contributions in this field.
- The MacTutor History of Mathematics - Biography of Max Born
- Vigyan Prasar Science Portal - Biography of Max Born
Britannica Web sites
Articles from Britannica encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
- Max Born - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1882-1970). British physicist. Born in Breslau, Germany, Max Born taught and conducted research at several German universities before he was forced to emigrate in 1933. He became a British subject in 1939. Born was Tait professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh from 1936 to 1953, when he retired and moved to West Germany. In 1954, he was corecipient of the Nobel prize in physics for the statistical description of the behavior of subatomic particles. Born was an early leader in explaining wave-particle ambiguities of physics and helped formulate quantum theory. He also introduced the Born approximation for solving problems concerning the scattering of atomic particles. After his retirement, he continued to write on scientific issues and coauthored Principles of Optics (1959). (See also physics.)