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.
James Franck
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James Franck was a German–American physicist who shared the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom."
Franck in 1925
![Left to right: Max Reich [de], Max Born, James Franck, and Robert Pohl (the bonzen) in 1923](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Franckfeier_1923_Die_Bonzen.jpg/500px-Franckfeier_1923_Die_Bonzen.jpg)
Left to right: Max Reich [de], Max Born, James Franck, and Robert Pohl (the bonzen) in 1923
Left to right: Niels Bohr, James Franck, Albert Einstein, and Isidor Rabi in 1954