- Born
- December 11, 1882
11
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-09
- 2.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
- 3.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archiveRetrieved 2017-08-22
- 4.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 5.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 6.Stated in Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
- December 11, 1882
- Died
- January 5, 1970
12
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-04-09
- 2.Stated in BnF authoritiesRetrieved 2015-10-10
- 3.Stated in MacTutor History of Mathematics archiveRetrieved 2017-08-22
- 4.Stated in SNACRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 5.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2017-10-09
- 6.Stated in BabelioRetrieved 2017-10-09
- January 5, 1970
- Birthplace
- Wrocław
7
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-10
- 2.Stated in Linear Birefringence in Diisopropylammonium Bromide Crystaltandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00150193.2014.890878
- 3.Stated in Are jews smarter than everyone else?ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3190562/
- 4.link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-3523-5_4.pdf
- 5.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 6.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Wrocław
- Place of death
- Göttingen
6
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2014-12-30
- 2.Stated in The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born, the Nobel Scientist who Ignited the Quantum Revolutiontandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00033790801919629
- 3.Stated in Über Quantenmechaniklink.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01327341
- 4.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 5.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- 6.Stated in Great Norwegian EncyclopediaRetrieved 2026-10-17
- Göttingen
- Citizenship
- German Reich
- , United Kingdom(since 1939)
1
- , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland(until 1927)
- Occupation
- physicist
- , mathematician
1
- , university teacher
1
- +2 more
- Positions held
- Education
- University of Göttingen(1904–1906)
- , Heidelberg University(1902–1902)
- , University of Wrocław(1901–1904)
- +2 more
Overview
Life at a glance
Positions, education, employers and awards over time
Spans and dates from Wikidata qualifiers (start/end/point in time). Hover for details; click to open.
Related
All data
277 statements · 35% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Place of burial
- Göttingen City Cemetery burial plot reference: Abt. E7, No. 28 · coordinates: 51.5339°N, 9.9111°E
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Find a GraveRetrieved 2024-05-17
- 2.Stated in BillionGravesRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Göttingen City Cemetery burial plot reference: Abt. E7, No. 28 · coordinates: 51.5339°N, 9.9111°E
- Member of
- Royal Society of London(since 1939)
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Göttingen Eighteen
Show 4 moreShow less
- Awards
- Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany(1959)
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1954) together with: Walther Bothe · prize money: 90,823 SEK · award rationale: for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction, för hans grundläggande arbeten inom kvantmekaniken, särskilt hans statistiska tolkning av vågfunktionen
2
Sources- 1.Stated in nobelprize.org“The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954”nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1954/summary/Retrieved 2021-02-05
- 2.“Table showing prize amounts”nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/04/prize-amounts-2020.pdfRetrieved 2021-02-05
- honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)(1954)
- Guthrie Lecture(1953)
- Hughes Medal(1950)
- Max Planck Medal(1948)
- honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux(1948)
- Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize(1944)
Show 3 moreShow less
- Given name
- Max
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Jacob
1
- Max
- Doctoral student
- Alister McLellan(1948)
1
- Herbert S. Green(1947)
1
- Sheila Christina Tinney(1941)
1
- Maurice Pryce(1937)
1
- Paul Weiss(1936)
1
- Siegfried Flügge(1933)
1
- Victor Weisskopf(1931)
1
- Maria Göppert Mayer(1930)
1
Show 12 moreShow less
- Bertha Swirles(1929)
1
- J. Robert Oppenheimer(1927)
1
- Pascual Jordan(1925)
1
- Edgar Krahn(1925)
1
- Otto Friedrich Bollnow(1925)
- Klaus Zweiling(1923)
1
- Carl Hermann(1923)
1
- Friedrich Hund(1922)
1
- Andrew Lees
1
- Klaus Zweiling
1
- Antonio Eduardo Rodríguez
1
- Kathleen Sarginson
1
- Alister McLellan(1948)
- Nominations
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1954)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1953)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1952)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1951)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1950)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1949)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1948)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1947)
1
Show 4 moreShow less
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1946)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1939)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1934)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1930)
1
- Nobel Prize in Physics(1954)
- Field of work
- theoretical physics
- physics
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- quantum mechanics
1
Sources- 1.Stated in Czech National Authority DatabaseRetrieved 2022-11-07
- Military branch
- Imperial German Army(1906–1907)
- Family name
- Born
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Born
- Sex or gender
- male
3
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2024-07-04
- 2.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 3.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- male
- Child
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
1
- Irene Helen Käthe Born
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Gustav Victor Rudolf Born
- Relative
- Olivia Newton-John kinship to subject: granddaughter
- Max Born kinship to subject: grandson
- Father
- Gustav Born
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Gustav Born
- Academic thesis
- Q90398746 released: 1906 · thesis submitted to: University of Göttingen · doctoral advisor: Carl David Tolmé Runge
1
- Q90398746 released: 1906 · thesis submitted to: University of Göttingen · doctoral advisor: Carl David Tolmé Runge
- Mother
- Margarethe Kauffmann
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Margarethe Kauffmann
- Name in native language
- Max Born
2
Sources- 1.Stated in GeniRetrieved 2025-07-15
- 2.Stated in GenealogicsRetrieved 2025-07-16
- Max Born
- Sibling
- Wolfgang Born kinship to subject: younger paternal half-brother
1
- Wolfgang Born kinship to subject: younger paternal half-brother
- Archives at
- Edinburgh University Library type of document(s) held: Nachlass
- Göttingen State and University Library inventory number: 4 Cod. Ms. hist. nat. 165 · type of document(s) held: Nachlass
- Berlin State Library type of document(s) held: Nachlass
On other databases
151 identifiers linking Max Born across the web's reference databases
- Academic Tree ID1942
- All-Russian Mathematical Portal ID27853
- Angelicum ID51644
- Arabic Ontology lexical concept ID151059027
- Awards & Winners artist ID0gr9_
- Babelio author ID303562
- BabelNet ID00012245n
- BAnQ authority ID0000098606
- Baza osób polskich ID36507
- BHCL UUID299fcd40-3282-44cd-b0de-671653fa7348
- BiblioNet author ID18277
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID122772830
- BIBSYS ID90078340
- BillionGraves grave ID14496618
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID1971.0002
- BNB person ID (OBSOLETE)BornMax1882-1970
- BookBrainz author IDdb7f10a1-8f42-459e-b8a1-c79ebcfb5626
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDborn-max
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf12070727
- CANTIC ID981058511181606706
- Christie's creator ID64516
- CiNii Research ID1140282266743094016
- CONOR.BG ID25774949
- CONOR.SI ID9688675
- Cyprus University of Technology ID25432
- DDB person (GND) ID118513621
- De Agostini IDBorn,+Max
- Deutsche Biographie (GND) ID118513621
- ELNET IDa12083793
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID88707
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDbiography/Max-Born
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDmax-born
- Encyclopedia of Australian Science IDP000246b
- Encyclopedia of Marxism IDpeople/b/o.htm#born-max
- FactGrid item IDQ223814
- FAST ID17109
- FES digital collections entity ID366608
- Find a Grave memorial ID6447871
- Frankfurter Personenlexikon ID1835
- Freebase ID/m/0gr9_
- Genealogics.org person IDI00606614
- Geni profile ID6000000000635214337
- GEPRIS Historisch person ID5101250
- GND ID118513621
- Goodreads author ID9807
- Google Doodlemax-borns-135th-birthday
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDmax-born
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0011492
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDMax_Born
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDborn-maks-052888
- Hessian Biography person ID18768
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID8814
- IdRef ID03158733X
- INAPP author ID3718
- INSPIRE-HEP author IDMax.Born.1
- Interlingual Index IDi94513
- ISNI000000011023110X
- IxTheo authority ID133837424
- J9U entity ID987007258817005171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)10711
- Jewish Museum Berlin person IDjmb-pers-448758
- Jewish Virtual Library IDmax-born
- Kallías IDPE00047347
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID118513621
- KBR person ID13953297
- Krugosvet article (archived)nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/BORN_MAKS.html
- Kulturstiftung.org person IDborn-max
- Leopoldina member ID (new)max-born
- Levadia Library ID59de6bd221c0c8f86d4815d3
- Lex IDMax_Born
- Libraries Australia ID35020387
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn50050350
- Libris-URI20dgg65l06xg2gg
- Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID01127/eu_b_4353/b4353
- MacTutor biography IDBorn
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID18245
- MR Author ID39705
- Munzinger person ID00000006314
- Museo Galileo authority ID183695
- Museum-digital person/organization ID262074
- MusicBrainz artist ID2b47809f-118e-4d2e-9cd2-519b67296476
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA00101030
- National Academy of Sciences member ID20001850
- National Library of Brazil ID000744288
- National Library of Greece ID140321
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls001218834
- National Library of Latvia ID000078598
- National Library of Lithuania IDLNB:VJG;=BD
- National Library of Poland MMS ID9810628497305606
- National Library of Portugal ID15606
