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Max Born ( December 11 , 1882 in Breslau - January 5 , 1970 in Göttingen ) was a Mathematician and Physicist . He won the 1954 Nobel Prize In Physics and was one of the 11 signatories to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto . EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION Born was one of two children of Gustav Born , an anatomist and embryologist, and Margarete Kauffmann. He had a sister called Käthe, and a half-brother called Wolfgang from his father's second marriage with Bertha Lipstein; his mother died when Max Born was four years old. Initially educated at the König-Wilhelm- Gymnasium , Born went on to study at the University Of Breslau followed by Heidelberg University and the University Of Zurich . During this period he came into contact with many prominent scientists and mathematicians including Klein , Hilbert , Minkowski , Runge , Schwarzschild , and Voigt . In 1909 he was appointed a lecturer at the University Of Göttingen where he worked until 1912 when he moved to work at the University Of Chicago . He married Hedwig, née Ehrenberg, in 1913 ; the marriage would have three children, including G. V. R. Born . His granddaughter is the British born Australia n singer and actress Olivia Newton-John . CAREER
In 1933 he was forced to emigrate from Germany to escape Anti-Semitism . He took up a position (Stokes Lecturer) at the University Of Cambridge . From 1936 to 1953 he was Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University Of Edinburgh . He became a British subject and a Fellow of the Royal Society Of London in 1939 . Albert Einstein was a friend of Born, and it was in a letter to him in 1926 that Einstein made his famous remark regarding quantum mechanics, often paraphrased as "God does not play dice with the universe." Max and Hedwig Born retired to Bad Pyrmont (10km south of Hamelin (''Hameln'')) in Germany. PUBLISHED WORKS
See also: Max Born, Hedwig Born, Albert Einstein. ''The Born-Einstein Letters''. AWARDS SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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