Werner Heisenberg, 12/05/1901 - 02/01/1976

By Caanan_Allison

  • Birth

    Birth
    Werner Heisenberg was born on December 5th 1901 in Würzburg, Germany.

  • College

    College
    Werner Heisenberg entered the University of Munich in 1920 and became a student of Arnold Sommerfeld.

  • Assistant

    Assistant
    While being a student for Arnold Sommerfeld, Heisenberg was the assistant and a student of Max Born at the University of Göttingen.

  • Doctorate degree

    Doctorate degree
    Finished his formal work for a doctorate degree in 1923 with a dissertation on hydrodynamics

  • Founding of Quantum Mechanics

    Founding of Quantum Mechanics
    Heisenberg had an extended visit at Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. He addressed the problem of the spectrum intensities of electrons taken as anharmonic oscillator. His believed that the theory should be based on observable quantities. He posted a paper in July of 1927 on this theory

  • Quantum Field theory

    Quantum Field theory
    In 1927 Heisenberg had a professorship in Leipzig. He embarked on a research program to create the quantum field theory. Quantum field theory is the behavior of subatomic particles and their interactions within two fields; the electromagnetic field and the electron field.

  • Uncertainty Principle

    Uncertainty Principle
    Heisenberg is widely known for the Uncertainty principle that he published in 1927. In the paper he explained that the momentum and position of a particle could not both be exactly measured simultaneously.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKELOE9eY4

  • Nobel prize

    Nobel prize
    Heisenberg later received the noble prize for physics in 1933 for the 1932 physics prize

  • death

    death
    Heisenberg died on February 1st 1976