Max Born
Type: Person
As of November 2026, Max Born has been mentioned in one podcast episode on PBS Space Time (Dec 2025). Heisenberg’s mentor at Göttingen; recognized Heisenberg’s mathematics as matrix algebra and provided the probabilistic interpretation of the wavefunction.
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 of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Walther Bothe "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction."
| Mentioned in | 1 episode on 1 podcast (as of November 2026) |
|---|---|
| First heard | Dec 2025 on PBS Space Time |
| Role | Physicist and mathematician |
| Affiliation | University of Göttingen (historical); University of Edinburgh (later) |
Who talks about Max Born on podcasts?
PBS Space Time Host brought up Max Born; the most recent mention was Dec 2025 on PBS Space Time.
- Heisenberg Made a Discovery in 1925. We Still Can't Explain It on PBS Space Time (Dec 2025) — PBS Space Time Host