BORN MAX: (1882-1970) German physicist and mathematician, instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1954. T.L.S., M. Born, one page, 4to (folding air mail stationery), Bad Pyrmont, West Germany, 10th April 1964, to Professor Robert S. Shankland at the Case Institute of Technology. Born thanks his correspondent for their article on the Michelson-Morley experiment, which he enjoyed reading, and continues to remark ´I worked in Michelson´s laboratory in Chicago in 1913, where I gave lectures on relativity and learned how to use a grating spectroscope´, further adding ´Not long ago I had a letter from Michelson´s youngest daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Michelson Stevens......whom I knew as a little girl. She is writing a biography of her father. She did not remember that we have ever met but wrote to me on advice of some physicist. It was a pleasant surprise to me to get a message from the Michelson family. I wonder whether you are in touch with them´. In concluding Born informs his correspomdent that his 1920 book on relativity appeared a year ago in a modernised version. A letter of good content and association. A few minor, light creases, VG

Robert S. Shankland (1908-1982) American physicist and historian.

Albert A. Michelson (1852-1931) American experimental physicist, known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially the Michelson-Morley experiment (1887), an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, for which he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physics, thereby becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science.