Biography:Max Born
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| Max Born | |
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| Born in the 1930s | |
| Born | 11 December 1882 Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 5 January 1970 Göttingen, West Germany
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| Known for | Born rule; matrix mechanics; Born approximation; Born-Oppenheimer approximation |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1954) |
Max Born (1882-1970) was a German-British theoretical physicist who made major contributions to quantum mechanics and solid-state physics.
Probability interpretation
Born introduced the probability interpretation of the wavefunction: the squared magnitude of a quantum amplitude gives a probability density. This Born rule became one of the basic postulates of quantum mechanics.
Born also contributed to matrix mechanics and to scattering theory. With J. Robert Oppenheimer, he developed the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for separating electronic and nuclear motion in molecules.
Quantum Collection links
- Physics:Quantum Born rule
- Physics:Quantum Wavefunction
- Physics:Quantum Probability amplitude
- Physics:Quantum Matrix mechanics
- Physics:Quantum Molecular orbital theory
References
- "Max Born - Biographical". Nobel Prize Outreach. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1954/born/biographical/.
- "Max Born". https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Born.
- Born, M. (1926). "Zur Quantenmechanik der Stoßvorgänge". Zeitschrift für Physik 37: 863-867. doi:10.1007/BF01397477.
Author: Harold Foppele
