Max Born
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Max Born was a German–British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work
Born, 1930s
Solvay Conference, 1927. Born is second from the right in the second row, between Louis de Broglie and Niels Bohr.
Max Born and Hedi Born visiting B.S. Madhava Rao's home in Bangalore, c. October 1935. Standing (l–r): B.S. Venkata Rao, B.S. Madhava Rao (holding son Arun), B.S. Bheema Rao. Seated (l–r): Ms. Fryer, Subhadra Bai, Shakuntala, Max Born, Hedi Born, Leelavathi, Kapila Bai, Ms. Muriel Robinson. Identifications confirmed by Leelavathi (BSM's daughter), 2026.
Born's gravestone in Göttingen is inscribed with the canonical commutation relation, which he put on rigorous mathematical footing.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
Max Born
…influence extended far beyond his own research: Max Delbrück, Siegfried Flügge, Friedrich Hund, Pascual Jordan, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Lothar Nordheim, Robert Oppenheimer, and Victor Weisskopf all received their Ph.D. degrees under Born at Göttingen, and his assistants included Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, Gerhard…
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez, on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.