1882 - 1970
Max Born (German pronunciation: [ˈmaks ˈbɔʁn] ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German-British 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 was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".Born entered the University of Göttingen in 1904, where he met the three renowned mathematicians Felix Klein, David Hilbert, and Hermann Minkowski. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Born has received more than 3,595,955 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Max Born is the 55th most popular physicist (down from 54th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 35th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Physicist.
Max Born was a German-born physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics.
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Among physicists, Max Born ranks 55 out of 717. Before him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Wilhelm Wien, Georges Lemaître, Philipp Lenard, and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. After him are J. Robert Oppenheimer, Otto von Guericke, Gabriel Lippmann, Rudolf Clausius, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, and Mikhail Lomonosov.
1821 - 1894
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 49
1803 - 1853
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 50
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 51
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 52
1862 - 1947
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 53
1853 - 1926
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 54
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 55
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 56
1602 - 1686
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 57
1845 - 1921
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 58
1822 - 1888
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 59
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 60
1711 - 1765
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 61
Among people born in 1882, Max Born ranks 12. Before him are Georges Braque, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Sigrid Undset, Lili Elbe, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, and Georgi Dimitrov. After him are Ion Antonescu, Emmy Noether, Günther von Kluge, Melanie Klein, Kurt von Schleicher, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1970, Max Born ranks 12. Before him are António de Oliveira Salazar, Jimi Hendrix, Erich Maria Remarque, Yukio Mishima, Sukarno, and Hjalmar Schacht. After him are Nelly Sachs, Édouard Daladier, Alexander Kerensky, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, and Paul Celan.
1882 - 1963
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 6
1882 - 1973
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 7
1882 - 1949
HPI: 72.92
Rank: 8
1882 - 1931
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 9
1882 - 1951
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 10
1882 - 1949
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 11
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 12
1882 - 1946
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 13
1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 14
1882 - 1944
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 15
1882 - 1960
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 16
1882 - 1934
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 17
1882 - 1944
HPI: 70.04
Rank: 18
1889 - 1970
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 6
1942 - 1970
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 7
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 8
1925 - 1970
HPI: 75.78
Rank: 9
1901 - 1970
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 10
1877 - 1970
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 11
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 12
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 13
1884 - 1970
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 14
1881 - 1970
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 15
1923 - 1970
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 16
1903 - 1970
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 17
1920 - 1970
HPI: 69.43
Rank: 18
Among people born in Germany, Max Born ranks 183 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Pachelbel (1653), Baron d'Holbach (1723), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Olaf Scholz (1958), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886). After him are Augustus III of Poland (1696), Caroline of Ansbach (1683), Emmy Noether (1882), Matthias Grünewald (1480), Ilse Koch (1906), and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800).
1653 - 1706
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 177
1723 - 1789
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 178
1833 - 1911
HPI: 71.70
Rank: 179
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 180
850 - 899
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 181
1886 - 1969
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 182
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 183
1696 - 1763
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 184
1683 - 1737
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 185
1882 - 1935
HPI: 71.39
Rank: 186
1480 - 1528
HPI: 71.37
Rank: 187
1906 - 1967
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 188
1800 - 1891
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 189
Among physicists born in Germany, Max Born ranks 8. Before him are Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), Georg Ohm (1789), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Heinrich Hertz (1857), and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821). After him are Otto von Guericke (1602), Max von Laue (1879), Carl Zeiss (1816), Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Ernst Ruska (1906).
1845 - 1923
HPI: 83.44
Rank: 2
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 3
1789 - 1854
HPI: 79.15
Rank: 4
1901 - 1976
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 5
1857 - 1894
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 6
1821 - 1894
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 7
1882 - 1970
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 8
1602 - 1686
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 9
1879 - 1960
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 10
1816 - 1888
HPI: 69.50
Rank: 11
1804 - 1891
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 12
1887 - 1975
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 13
1906 - 1988
HPI: 68.95
Rank: 14