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Max Born, My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate (1978), is a highly readable autobiography. Albert Einstein and Max Born, The Born-Einstein Letters: Friendship, Politics, and Physics in Uncertain Times (2005), is a fascinating look at the correspondents’ wide range of interests. Nancy Thorndike Greenspan, The End of the Certain World: The Life and Science of Max Born (2005), emphasizes the dramatic events in Born’s life rather than the science. Jeremy Bernstein, “Max Born and the quantum theory,” American Journal of Physics, 73(11): 999–1008, examines Born’s major contributions to physics.
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| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 07, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 13, 2025 | ||
| Modified title of Web site: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy - The Life of Max Born. | Jul 09, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy - The Life of Max Born. | Jul 09, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Born to greatness? | Sep 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Scientists - Biography of Max Born. | Apr 17, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Atomic Archive - Biography of Max Born. | Mar 23, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Vigyan Prasar - Max Borm. | Nov 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Max Born. | Nov 01, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Max Born. | Nov 01, 2013 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Max Born. | Mar 27, 2008 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Mar 22, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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