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Max Born 1882–1970, British physicist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of GOttingen, 1907. He was head of the physics department at the Univ. of GOttingen from 1921 to 1933. When Nazi policies forced him to leave Germany, he went to England; he was a lecturer at Cambridge Univ., then became (1936) a professor of natural philosophy at the Univ. of Edinburgh. Born was made a British citizen in 1939. In 1953 he retired to West Germany. Known for his research in quantum mechanics, he shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walter Bothe. Born's writings include Problems of Atomic Dynamics (1926, tr. 1960).
See his autobiography, My Life and My Views (1968).
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