Awards and Honors
- 1934 - Stokes Medal of Cambridge
- 1939 - Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1945 - MacDougall-Brisbane Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1945 - Gunning-Victoria Jubilee Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1948 - Max Planck Medaille der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft
- 1950 - Hughes Medal of the Royal Society of London
- 1953 - Honorary citizen of the town of Göttingen
- 1954 - Nobel Prize in Physics The award was for Born's fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction.
- 1954 - Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
- 1954 - Born Nobel Prize Lecture
- 1956 - Hugo Grotius Medal for International Law, Munich
- 1959 - Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic
- 1982 - Ceremony at the University of Göttingen in the 100th Birth Year of Max Born and James Franck, Institute Directors 1921 - 1933.
- Max-Born Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. - Institute named in his honor.
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