Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German theoretical physicist. "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"

A century after the quantum revolution, a lot of uncertainty remains.

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The three Titans of quantum mechanics: (L-R) Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger at the Stockholm Railway Station, c. 1933.

Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known.

Werner Karl Heisenberg (German: [ˈhaɪzənbɛɐ̯g]; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.

Explore the biography of Werner Heisenberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist behind the Uncertainty Principle and a pioneer of quantum mechanics.

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg