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 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, name this German physicist (-5[1])who names an approximation (-5[1])that fixes nuclei in space along with J. Robert Oppenheimer. (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[4])

ANSWER: Max Born [accept Born rule or Born rigidity or Born coordinates or Born–Infeld model or Born–Oppenheimer approximation]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Alina MooreTennessee ABruin A100-5
Rohan DalalGeorgia Tech CGeorgia Tech D104-5
Samir SarmaGeorgia Tech DGeorgia Tech C11410
Beckett GilmoreLouisville AGeorgia Tech B1150
Matthew SumanenGeorgia Tech BLouisville A1150
Yuxuan LuVanderbilt AGeorgia Tech A1150
Arhith DharanendraGeorgia Tech AVanderbilt A1150
Jack LewisBruin ATennessee A11510

Summary

California2025-02-01Y3100%0%67%101.67
Florida2025-02-01Y367%0%0%107.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y683%0%50%114.40
Midwest2025-02-01Y6100%0%33%85.50
North2025-02-01Y3100%0%33%107.00
Northeast2025-02-01Y5100%0%20%96.60
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%103.50
South Central2025-02-01Y2100%0%50%102.50
Southeast2025-02-01Y450%0%50%114.50
UK2025-02-01Y10100%0%20%91.70
Upper Mid-Atlantic2025-02-01Y888%0%25%89.14
Upstate NY2025-02-01Y333%0%33%104.00