Max Born (11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-Jewish physicist and mathematician 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. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
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Date of birth | 11 December 1882
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Place of birth | Breslau, Germany
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Date of death | 5 January 1970
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Age | 87 (age at death)
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Place of death | Göttingen, Germany
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Resting place | Stadtfriedhof Göttingen, Gottingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany
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Residence | Göttingen, West Germany
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