Google is celebrating 135th birthday of Nobel Prize Winner Max Born with doodle today.
Max Born was born on the 11th of December in 1882 in Breslau, which used to be a part of the German Empire, but is now a part of Poland. He studied at the University of Breslau and obtained his Ph.D at Gottingen University, where he went on to become a professor of theoretical physics.
Without Max Born’s development of the field of Quantum mechanics, today’s modern world would perhaps not have been the same. Quantum mechanics is a part of physics which studies matter at the smallest form possible. Without quantum mechanics, advancements in medicine (including inventions like Medical Imaging Devices or MRIs), lasers and personal computing would have remained a dream. And this is where Max Born, who was a German physicist and mathematician, played a huge role in making these inventions a reality. His contributions were recognized when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954.
Unfortunately, with the rise of Nazism in Germany, Dr Born was forced to escape from Germany in 1933 and emigrate to Britain. In Britain, Dr Born became the Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and continued to hold onto his post till he retired in 1954, which was when he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
Throughout his life, Dr Born’s encounters with many eminent academicians across the globe and events like the First World War helped shape his research in quantum mechanics. In 1915, Dr Born joined the German Armed Forces where he worked on the theory of sound ranging and where he studied the theory of crystals.