Nobel prize to Max Born awarded in 1954 "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wave-function''. Co-winner W. Bothe "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith''
BORN 1926B
Born, M.; Zur Quantenmechanik der Stoßvorgänge / Quantum Mechanics of Collision
Z. Phys. 37 (1926) 863;
Reprinted in Dokumente der Naturwissenschaft, I (1962) 48.
(translation into English) On the Quantum Mechanics of Collisions. Quantum Theory of Measurement, ed. J. A. Wheeler, W. H. Zurek Princeton Univ. Press (1983) 52.
Abstracts
Durch eine Untersuchung der Stoßvorgänge wird die Auffassung entwickelt, daß die Quantenmechanik in der Schrödingerschen Form nicht nur die stationären Zustände, sondern auch die Quantensprünge zu beschreiben gestattet. Abstract Through the investigation of collisions it is argued that quantum mechanics in the Schrödinger form allows one to describe not only stationary states but also quantum jumps.
Record comments
Statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics. Quantum theory of scattering. Born approximation.