In January 1933, the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, and Born, who was Jewish, was suspended from his professorship at the University of Göttingen. He emigrated to the United Kingdom, where he took a job at St John's College, Cambridge, and wrote a popular science book, The Restless Universe, as well as Atomic Physics, which soon became a standard textbook. In October 1936, he became the Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where, working with German-born assistants E. Walter Kellermann and Klaus Fuchs, he continued his research into physics. Born became a naturalised British subject on 31 August 1939, one day before World War II broke out in Europe. He remained in Edinburgh until 1952. He retired to Bad Pyrmont, in West Germany, and died in a hospital in Göttingen on 5 January 1970.[2]
Max Born was born on 11 December 1882 in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), which at the time of Born's birth was part of the Prussian Province of Silesia in the German Empire, to a family of Jewish descent.[3] He was one of two children born to Gustav Born, an anatomist and embryologist, who was a professor of embryology at the University of Breslau,[4] and his wife Margarethe (Gretchen) née Kauffmann, from a Silesian family of industrialists. She died when Max was four years old, on 29 August 1886.[5] Max had a sister, Käthe, who was born in 1884, and a half-brother, Wolfgang, from his father's second marriage, to Bertha Lipstein. Wolfgang later became Professor of Art History at the City College of New York.[6]
In 1912, Born met Hedwig (Hedi) Ehrenberg, the daughter of a Leipzig University law professor, and a friend of Carl Runge's daughter Iris. She was of Jewish background on her father's side, although he had become a practising Lutheran when he got married, as did Max's sister Käthe. Despite never practising his religion, Born refused to convert, and his wedding on 2 August 1913 was a garden ceremony. However, he was baptised as a Lutheran in March 1914 by the same pastor who had performed his wedding ceremony. Born regarded "religious professions and churches as a matter of no importance".[18] His decision to be baptised was made partly in deference to his wife, and partly due to his desire to assimilate into German society.[18] The marriage produced three children: two daughters, Irene, born in 1914, and Margarethe (Gritli), born in 1915, and a son, Gustav, born in 1921.[19] Through marriage, Born is related to jurists Victor Ehrenberg, his father-in-law, and Rudolf von Jhering, his wife's maternal grandfather, as well as to philosopher and theologian Hans Ehrenberg, and is a great uncle of British comedian Ben Elton.[20]
Born's position at Cambridge was only a temporary one, and his tenure at Göttingen was terminated in May 1935. He therefore accepted an offer from C. V. Raman to go to Bangalore in 1935.[64] Born considered taking a permanent position there, but the Indian Institute of Science did not create an additional chair for him.[65] In November 1935, the Born family had their German citizenship revoked, rendering them stateless. A few weeks later Göttingen cancelled Born's doctorate.[66] Born considered an offer from Pyotr Kapitsa in Moscow, and started taking Russian lessons from Rudolf Peierls's Russian-born wife Genia. But then Charles Galton Darwin asked Born if he would consider becoming his successor as Tait Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, an offer that Born promptly accepted,[67] assuming the chair in October 1936.[62]
This report offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of interest and expertise, including donors, dealers, and repository staff.
In order to keep the Millennial generation analytically meaningful, and to begin looking at what might be unique about the next cohort, Pew Research Center decided a year ago to use 1996 as the last birth year for Millennials for our future work. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation.
In this progression, what is unique for Generation Z is that all of the above have been part of their lives from the start. The iPhone launched in 2007, when the oldest Gen Zers were 10. By the time they were in their teens, the primary means by which young Americans connected with the web was through mobile devices, WiFi and high-bandwidth cellular service. Social media, constant connectivity and on-demand entertainment and communication are innovations Millennials adapted to as they came of age. For those born after 1996, these are largely assumed.
With a sharp wit and wild exuberance, McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons. Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet, and that you, indeed all of us, were born to run.
Foreign-born STEM workers have made important contributions to the U.S. economy in terms of productivity and innovation. Research has found that immigrants are more likely than the U.S.-born to obtain a patent, and immigrants account for rising shares of U.S. patents in computing, electronics, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. Immigrants are also more likely to start their own businesses, many of which go on to be major companies. In 2021, 44 percent of Fortune 500 companies in the United States were founded by an immigrant or the child of an immigrant.
As the demand for STEM workers continues to increase, foreign-born STEM workers will likely continue to complement U.S. workers and play a key role in U.S. productivity and innovation. The number of STEM jobs is projected to increase by 10.5 percent (to almost 11.3 million jobs) between 2020 and 2030. This growth rate is greater than the 7.7 percent growth projected for all occupations during the same period.
According to projections made in 2022 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States will need approximately one million more STEM workers in 2030 than it did in 2020. This does not include the number of STEM workers that will be needed to replace retiring workers or workers who leave the field for other reasons. To meet this growing demand, the United States will need to increase the number of students who receive undergraduate and graduate STEM degrees. But while increasing the number of U.S.-born workers in STEM fields is critical, demographic trends indicate that foreign-born STEM students and workers are likely to be needed if the United States is to be prepared for future labor demands and continue to excel globally.
Nationally, foreign-born women are underrepresented in the overall labor force. Women make up slightly more than half of the total foreign-born population, but immigrant women participate in the labor force at a lower rate than either U.S.-born or immigrant men, and at a rate slightly below that of U.S.-born women.
In the STEM fields, women are underrepresented. While the share of STEM workers who are female has increased slightly since 2000, only 26.8 percent of all STEM workers were female as of 2019 (see Table 8). The female share of foreign-born STEM workers is slightly higher than the female share of all STEM workers, with immigrant women making up 27.2 percent of all immigrant STEM workers (See Table 9).
Research has shown that areas which attract more high-skilled foreign-born workers see faster rates of growth in labor productivity. Furthermore, college-educated workers, whether U.S.-born or foreign-born, have a positive effect on local economies and boost productivity and wages. College-educated workers may also increase the quality of amenities in a city, such as better schools, medical facilities, and cultural institutions. Therefore, cities that retain their foreign-born college-educated workers are more attractive to both immigrant and U.S.-born workers alike, and areas that fail to attract and retain college-educated workers are less attractive.
The number of STEM workers varies widely from state to state. For example, the foreign-born made up more than 42 percent of all STEM workers in New Jersey and almost 40 percent in California as of 2019. In total, there were 15 states in which immigrants made up 20 percent or more of all STEM workers (see Table 12).
Among states with the most immigrant STEM workers, California came out on top with 609,000 immigrant STEM workers, followed by Texas (241,000), New Jersey (150,000), and New York (136,000) (see Table 13).
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) exhibit progressive memory loss, depression, and anxiety, accompanied by impaired adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN). Whether AHN can be enhanced in impaired AD brain to restore cognitive and affective function remains elusive. Here, we report that patterned optogenetic stimulation of the hypothalamic supramammillary nucleus (SuM) enhances AHN in two distinct AD mouse models, 5FAD and 3Tg-AD. Strikingly, the chemogenetic activation of SuM-enhanced adult-born neurons (ABNs) rescues memory and emotion deficits in these AD mice. By contrast, SuM stimulation alone or activation of ABNs without SuM modification fails to restore behavioral deficits. Furthermore, quantitative phosphoproteomics analyses reveal activation of the canonical pathways related to synaptic plasticity and microglia phagocytosis of plaques following acute chemogenetic activation of SuM-enhanced (vs. control) ABNs. Our study establishes the activity-dependent contribution of SuM-enhanced ABNs in modulating AD-related deficits and informs signaling mechanisms mediated by the activation of SuM-enhanced ABNs.
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