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." The Nobel Prize in Physics 1954, announced November 3, 1954. Max Born (1/2), “for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction”. Walther Bothe (1/2), “for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith”. Max Born: born 1882, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). Walther Bothe: born 1891, Oranienburg, Germany. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).