Max Born
Max Born (1882-1970)
Nationality German
Fields Physics
Institutions University of Frankfurt am Main
University of Göttingen
University of Edinburgh
Alma mater University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor Carl Runge
Doctoral students Victor Frederick Weisskopf
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim
Max Delbrück
Walter Elsasser
Friedrich Hund
Pascual Jordan
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Herbert S. Green
Cheng Kaijia
Siegfried Flügge
Edgar Krahn
Maurice Pryce
Antonio Rodríguez
Bertha Swirles
Paul Weiss
Peng Huanwu
Other notable students Emil Wolf
Known for Born-Haber cycle
Born rigidity
Born approximation
Born-Infeld theory
Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Born's Rule
Born-Landé equation
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1954)
Fritz Haber
Institutions Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
University of Karlsruhe
Alma mater University of Heidelberg, Humboldt University of Berlin
Technical University of Berlin
Doctoral advisor Robert Bunsen
Notable awards Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1918)
Germain Henri Hess
Germain Henri Hess
Fields chemistry
Known for Hess's Law
Antoine Lavoisier
calorimeter
Line engraving by Louis Jean Desire Delaistre, after a design by Julien Leopold Boilly
Born 26 August 1743
Paris, France
Died 8 May 1794 (aged 50)
Paris, France
Influences Guillaume-François Rouelle
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827). Posthumous portrait by Madame Feytaud, 1842
Born 23 March 1749
Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy, France
Died 5 March 1827 (aged 77)
Paris, France
Nationality
Fields Astronomer and Mathematician
Institutions École Militaire (1769–1776)
Alma mater University of Caen
Academic advisors Jean d'Alembert
Christophe Gadbled
Pierre Le Canu
Doctoral students Siméon Denis Poisson
Known for Work in Celestial Mechanics
Laplace's equation
Laplacian
Laplace transform
Laplace distribution
Laplace's demon
Laplace expansion
Young–Laplace equation
Laplace number
Laplace limit
Laplace invariant
Laplace principle
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Gustav Kirchhoff
Born 12 March 1824
Königsberg, East Prussia
Died 17 October 1887 (aged 63)
Berlin, Germany
Residence Germany
Nationality German
Fields Physicist
Institutions University of Berlin
University of Breslau
University of Heidelberg
Alma mater University of Königsberg
Doctoral advisor Franz Ernst Neumann
Doctoral students Max Noether
Ernst Schröder
Known for Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation
Kirchhoff's laws of spectroscopy
Kirchhoff's law of thermochemistry
Notable awards Rumford medal