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==Awards and honors== * 1934 – [[Stokes Medal]] of Cambridge<ref name="Born Biographic Data">{{Cite web|url=https://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000246b.htm|title=Born, Max - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry|first=The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research|last=Centre|website=www.asap.unimelb.edu.au}}</ref> * 1939 – [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/>{{sfn|Kemmer|Schlapp|1971}} * 1945 – [[Makdougall–Brisbane Prize]] of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]<ref>The award was presented for research on quantum mechanics of fields and shared with Born's collaborator H. W. Peng. See Greenspan, 2005, p. 257 and [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000246b.htm Born Biographic Data].</ref> * 1945 – [[Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize]] of the Royal Society of Edinburgh<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IEhAAAAAIBAJ&pg=3924%2C129473|title= Royal Society of Edinburgh. Awards to Professors |work=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=2 May 1950 |page=3 |access-date=1 May 2018}}</ref> * 1948 – [[Max-Planck Medal|Max Planck Medaille]] der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/> * 1950 – [[Hughes Medal]] of the [[Royal Society of London]]<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/> * 1953 – Honorary citizen of the town of Göttingen<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/> * 1954 – [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] The award was for Born's fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/> ** 1954 – Nobel Prize Banquet Speech<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1954/born/speech/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> ** 1954 – Born Nobel Prize Lecture<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-lecture.pdf |title=Born Nobel Prize Lecture |access-date=22 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231144002/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1954/born-lecture.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2006 }}</ref> * 1956 – [[Hugo Grotius]] Medal for International Law, Munich<ref name="Born Biographic Data"/> * 1959 – [[Bundesverdienstkreuz|Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1954/born/biographical/|title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954|website=NobelPrize.org}}</ref> * 1972 – [[Max Born Medal and Prize]] was created by the [[German Physical Society]] and the British [[Institute of Physics]]. It is awarded annually.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/bilateral/born/page_38469.html |title=The Born medal and prize |publisher=[[Institute of Physics]] |access-date=30 August 2011 |archive-date=8 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308002210/http://www.iop.org/about/awards/bilateral/born/page_38469.html }}</ref><ref name="DPG_Born_Prize">{{cite web |url=http://www.dpg-physik.de/preise/preistraeger_mb.html |title=Max-Born-Preis |language=de |trans-title=Max Born Prize |publisher=[[German Physical Society]] |access-date=30 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813233420/http://www.dpg-physik.de/preise/preistraeger_mb.html |archive-date=13 August 2011 }}</ref> * 1982 – Ceremony at the [[University of Göttingen]] in the 100th Birth Year of Max Born and James Franck, Institute Directors 1921–1933.<ref>''James Franck und Max Born in Göttingen: Reden zur akademischen Feier aus Anlass der 100. Wiederkehr ihres Geburtsjahres.'' (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1983). Speeches by Norbert Kamp, Peter Haasen, Gerhart W. Rathenau, and [[Friedrich Hund]]. Franck was Director of the Second Institute for Experimental Physics at Göttingen, while Born was Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics.</ref> * 1991 – {{ill|Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie|de}} – Institute named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mbi-berlin.de/en/general/development/index.html |title=Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroskopy – {{sic|Develo|pement|nolink=y}} of the MBI |access-date=10 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006204009/http://www.mbi-berlin.de/en/general/development/index.html |archive-date=6 October 2014 }}</ref> * 2017 – On 11 December 2017, Google showed a Google doodle, designed by Kati Szilagyi, in honouring the 135th birth anniversary of Born.<ref name="Scroll.in 2017">{{cite web | title=Who is Max Born? Google doodle honours physicist for his contributions to quantum mechanics | website=Scroll.in | date=11 December 2017 | url=https://scroll.in/latest/861039/google-celebrates-135th-birth-anniversary-of-german-physicist-max-born | access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>
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