Born, Max
Born, Max (1882-1970), a German physicist. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize in physics for his research in quantum mechanics, the basis of modern nuclear physics. He is noted especially for his statistical interpretation of the wave function. By applying Louis de Broglie's theory that electrons have wavelike characteristics, Born concluded that the wavelength associated with an electron indicates the probable location of the electron.
Born was a native of Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). He received his Ph.D. in 1907 from Göttingen University, where he became the head of the physics department in 1921. Born moved to England in 1933 and became a British subject. He returned to West Germany in 1953.
His books include Einstein's Theory of Relativity (1920) and My Life and My Views (1968).