Einstein's Theory of Relativity

Max Born info

First published 1920

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Relativity built up from mechanics and optics with almost no mathematics.

1882–1970 · German-Jewish physicist and mathematician

Profession: Physicist, Mathematician, Professor
Worked at: Humboldt University of Berlin, Göttingen, Edinburgh, Artillery Testing Commission
Studied at: Cambridge, Heidelberg, Göttingen
Studied under: Carl David Tolmé Runge
Prizes: Max Planck Medal (1948), Nobel Prize in Physics (1954), Hughes Medal (1950), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1937), Fellow of the Royal Society (1939), Makdougall Brisbane Prize (1942), Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1944), Guthrie Lecture (1953)

His gravestone is engraved with the equation pq − qp = h/2πi.

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