College Physics ›› 2016, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (12): 57-61.doi: 10.16854/j.cnki.1000-0712.2016.0182

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Max Born’s special summary on his scientific career

HOU Yu-de1,TAO Pei-pei2   

  1. 1. The Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Shanxi University,Taiyuan,Shanxi 030006) 2. School of Humanities,Donghua University,Shanghai 201620,China
  • Online:2016-12-20 Published:2016-12-20
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Abstract: How many collaborators did Born have in all his life? And who were they? How many Ph. D. students did Born have supervised in all his life? And who were they? Born had been the fellows and members of many country and their scientific societies,what were they? How many main Medals or Prize Born had get? What were they? Which was the most important contribution,Born thought, in his work?. . . We could not find the exact and overall answers of these questions in Born's autobiography or his biography by other people. But we can find all these answers in the Confidential Personal Records of Fellows of the Royal Society,which wrote by Born himself. Based on the file and other books, the paper sums the scientific career of Max Born from eleven aspects.

Key words: Max Born, The Royal Society, scientific contribution

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