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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Paul Ehrlich, Max Born, Edith Stein, Fritz Haber, Moritz Traube, Siegbert Tarrasch, Julius von Sachs, Rudolf Frankel, Max Rostal, Oscar Slater, Joachim Prinz, Fritz Stern, David Cassel, Oskar Seidlin, Richard Courant, Emin Pasha, Wilhelm Traube, Ludwig Guttmann, Ludwig Traube, Otto Stern, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Rudolf Meidner, Herbert Hupka, Alicia Koplowitz, Marquise of Bellavista, Alfred Kerr, Adolf Martin Schlesinger, Adolf Aron Baginsky, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Stefanie Zweig, David Rosin, Benno Landsberger, Yehuda Gruenfeld, Wilhelm Ebstein, Arnold Mendelssohn, Ottomar Rosenbach, Edmund Lesser, Joseph Zedner, Wilhelm Siegmund Frei, Joel Lowe, Abraham Lewinsky, Fritz Katz, Michael Sachs, Franz Skutsch, Karl Weigert, Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch, Jakob Guttmann, Albert Bielschowsky, Jakub Egit, Abraham Lewysohn, Schlessinger, Slezak, Glatzer, Breslau, Bielszowski. Excerpt: Max Born (11 December 1882 - 5 January 1970) was a German-born physicist and mathematician 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 30s. Born won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with Walther Bothe). Max was born on December 11, 1882 in Breslau (now Wroc aw, Poland), which at Born's birth was in the Prussian Province of Silesia in the German Empire. He was one of two children born to Gustav Born, (b. 22 April 1850, Kempen, d. 6 July 1900, Breslau), an anatomist and embryologist, and Margarethe ('Gretchen') Kauffmann (b. 22 January 1856, Tannhausen, d. 29 August 1886, Breslau), from a Silesian family of industrialists. Gustav and Gretchen married on 7 May 1881. She died when Max was just four years old, on 29 August 1886. Max had a sister Kathe (b. 5 March 1884), and a hal...