Max Born

German-Jewish physicist and mathematician (1882-1970)

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Max Born was a German-Jewish physicist and mathematician who lived from 1882 to 1970 and made fundamental contributions to quantum mechanics, the science governing how atoms and subatomic particles behave. His work helped establish the mathematical foundations of modern physics and influenced how scientists understand the nature of reality at the smallest scales.

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Born: 1882
Died: 1970
Works: 94

Top works

On Modern Physics
Discussione sulla fisica moderna
Donde estamos hoy?
problems of atomic dynamics
Untersuchungen über die stabilität der elastischen Linie in Ebene und Raum

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Type: Group
Origin: Tokyo
Active from: 2007-05
Active to: 2016-05-26

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners: 15
Total plays: 36

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5 total works indexed

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,068x
A smooth particle mesh Ewald method
· 1995 · cited 21,171x
Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,976x
Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,342x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,518x

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Quotes

“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.”
“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.”
“Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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date of birth: 1882-12-11
date of death: 1970-01-05
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Max Born ( German: [ˈmaks ˈbɔʁn] ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) 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 statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."

Born entered the University of Göttingen in 1904, where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the subject of the stability of elastic wires and tapes, winning the university's Philosophy Faculty Prize. In 1905, he began researching special relativity with Minkowski, and subsequently wrote his habilitation thesis on the Thomson model of the atom. A chance meeting with Fritz Haber in Berlin in 1918 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.