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Fritz Bayerlein

This article  needs additional citations for  verification .  Please help  improve this article  by  adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.   (October 2012)   ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) Fritz Bayerlein Born 14 January 1899 Died 30 January 1970 (aged 71) Allegiance   Nazi Germany Service/branch Army (Wehrmacht) Rank Generalleutnant Commands held 3rd Panzer Division Panzer Lehr Division LIII Army Corps Battles/wars World War II Invasion of Poland Battle of Alam Halfa Ardennes Offensive Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords Fritz Hermann Michael Bayerlein  (14 January 1899 – 30 January 1970) was a general in the  Wehrmacht  of  Nazi Germany during  World War II . He initially served as a staff officer, including with  Erwin Rommel  in the  Afrika Korps . He then co...

Max Born

Max Born  ( German:   [bɔɐ̯n] ; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German  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 1930s. Born won the 1954  Nobel Prize in Physics  for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the  wave function ". [2] [3] [4] [5] Born was born in 1882 in  Breslau ,  German Empire  (at the time; the city is now  Wrocław ,  Poland ). Born entered the  University of Göttingen  in 1904, where he found the three renowned mathematicians  Felix Klein ,  David Hilbert , and  Hermann Minkowski . He wrote his  Ph.D.  thesis on the subject of "Stability of Elastica in a  Plane  and...