Max Born
Full Name of the recipient | Max Born |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1954 |
Share in Award | 50.0% |
Award Shared with | Walther Bothe (50.0%) |
Motivation for the Award | for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
Place of Birth | Breslau (now Wroclaw), Germany (now known as Poland POL) |
Date of Birth | 11 December 1882 |
Age at the time of Award | 71 years |
Place of Death | Göttingen, West Germany DEU |
Date of Death | 5 January 1970 |