Max Born (1882 - 1970)

Born 11 Dec 1882 in Breslau, Schlesien, Preußen, Deutsches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Hedwig Martha Emma (Ehrenberg) Born — married 2 Aug 1913 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Preußen, Deutsches Reich

Descendants

Died 5 Jan 1970 at age 87 in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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Biography

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Max Born has Jewish Roots.

Max Born emigrated to England

Max Born was a theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."^[1]

Max was born on 11 Dec 1882 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at the time of his birth was part of the Prussian Province of Silesia in the German Empire, to a family of Jewish descent. He was one of two children born to Gustav Born, an anatomist and embryologist, who was a professor of embryology at the University of Breslau, and his wife Margarethe (Gretchen), née Kauffmann, from a Silesian family of industrialists. She died on 29 Aug 1886, when Max was four years old. Max had a sister, Käthe, who was born in 1884, and a half-brother, Wolfgang, from his father's second marriage to Bertha Lipstein.

Max married Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) on 2 Aug 1913 in Berlin. She was the daughter of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg and Elise von Jhering (a daughter of the jurist Rudolf von Jhering). They had three children:

• Irene Helene Kathe Hedwig,
• Susanne Margarethe "Gritli",
• Gustav Victor Rudolf.

Grammy award-winning singer Olivia Newton-John was his granddaughter through Irene (1914-2003). The actor Max Born (Fellini Satyricon) is his grandson. His great-grandchildren include songwriter Brett Goldsmith, singer Tottie Goldsmith, racing driver Emerson Newton-John, and singer Chloe Rose Lattanzi.

Born was suspended from his professorship at the University of Göttingen when the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he took a job at St John's College, Cambridge. He became the Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1936. Born became a naturalised British subject on 31 August 1939. The following day, Germany invaded Poland, and two days later the United Kingdom and France declared war with Germany.

Max Born passed away on 5 Jan 1970 in Göttingen. He was buried at Stadtfriedhof Göttingen.^[2][3] His wife Hedwig Born and her parents Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg and Helene Ehrenberg are buried next to him.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Wed. 22 Feb 2023.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6447871/max-born: accessed 16 September 2022), memorial page for Max Born (11 Dec 1882–5 Jan 1970), Find A Grave: Memorial #6447871, citing Stadtfriedhof Göttingen, Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany; Maintained by Find a Grave.
3. ↑ "Nuclear Physics Pioneer Max Born Dies at Age 87," Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Tuesday 6 January 1970, page 24, column 5-6. Newspapers.com : 20 September 2022.
4. ↑ BillionGraves.com record for Max Born (11 December 1882 - 5 January 1970), BillionGraves Record Stadtfriedhof Göttingen, Göttingen, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany, Europe.

See also:

• Wikidata: Item Q58978
• Max Born – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Wed. 22 Feb 2023.
• Max Born on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
• German Wikipedia article on Max Born