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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 (10[1])to satisfy this physicist’s relativistic formulation of rigidity. While at Göttingen, this physicist and Heisenberg developed the matrix representation (10[1])of quantum physics. (-5[1])This physicist proposed that the squared magnitude of a wave function (-5[1])equals (10[1])the probability (10[1])of finding a (10[2])particle. (10[1])For 10 points, name this German physicist who names an approximation that fixes nuclei in space (10[1])along with J. Robert Oppenheimer. ■END■ (10[2])

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