Born: 11-Dec-1882
Birthplace: Breslau, Germany
Died: 5-Jan-1970
Location of death: Göttingen, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Pioneer of quantum mechanics

Father: Gustav Born (anatomist)
Mother: Margarete Kauffmann
Wife: Hedwig Ehrenberg (m. 1913)

    High School: König Wilhelm Gymnasium, Breslau, Germany
    University: University of Breslau
    Scholar: Cambridge University
    University: PhD, University of Göttingen (1907)
    Professor: University of Frankfurt-on-Main (1919-21)
    Professor: University of Göttingen (1921-33)
    Scholar: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (1935-36, six months)
    Professor: Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Edinburgh (1936-53)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1954 (with Walther Bothe)
    Max Planck Medal 1948
    Hughes Medal 1950
    Naturalized UK Citizen 1939
    Risk Factors: Bell's Palsy

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