Question

This physicist and an alphabetically-later collaborator developed a set of electrodynamic equations that set an upper limit on the self-energy of a point charge to avoid divergences in Maxwell electrodynamics. This physicist developed (-5[1])a coordinate chart to describe the worldlines of Langevin observers on a rotating disk, which must have constant orthogonal spacetime distance to satisfy this physicist’s relativistic formulation of rigidity. While at Göttingen, this physicist and Heisenberg developed the matrix representation of quantum physics. This physicist proposed that the squared magnitude of a wave function equals the probability of finding a particle. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this German physicist (-5[1])who names an approximation that fixes nuclei in space along with J. Robert (10[1])Oppenheimer. (10[1])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

ANSWER: Max Born [accept Born rule or Born rigidity or Born coordinates or Born–Infeld model or Born–Oppenheimer approximation]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rasheeq AzadUNC BSouth Carolina32-5
Sachin PoobalasinghamWake ForestUNC D96-5
Thomas GlotfeltyVirginia Tech ALiberty A100-5
Michael EngUNC CDuke11310
Chase WoodsonVirginia ALiberty C11410
Josh SchmidtLiberty AVirginia Tech A1150
Chris YooWilliam & MaryLiberty B11510
Nick SmemoeUNC DWake Forest11510
Robert FreemanSouth CarolinaUNC B11510

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