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The German physicist and mathematician Max Born was born on Dec. 11, 1882 in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). From 1921 to 1933, he taught at the University in Göttingen, before moving to Edinburgh in 1936, where he remained until 1952. Max Born was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics and was awarded with the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics”. Born retired to Bad Pyrmont in West Germany, and he died in Göttingen on Jan. 5, 1970.
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Max Born, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3361.