List of things named after Max Born

Max Born was a scientist who worked in many fields. Below is a list of things named in his honour.

Chemistry

• Born–Haber cycle
• Born–Landé equation
• Born–Mayer equation
• Born equation

Physics

• BBGKY hierarchy (Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon hierarchy)
• Born–Oppenheimer approximation
• Born–Huang approximation
• Born–Infeld model
• Born–von Karman boundary condition
• Born approximation, see Born series
• Born coordinates
• Born equation
• Born law, see Born rule
• Born probability
• Born reciprocity
• Born rigidity
• Born rule
• Born series
• Born square
• Cauchy-Born rule

Astronomical objects

• Born (crater)
• 13954 Born, asteroid

Others

• Max Born Medal and Prize of the German Physical Society and the British Institute of Physics, created in 1972.
• Max Born Award, given by The Optical Society.
• Max-Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. - Institute named in his honour.

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