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The birth of a physicist
On December 5th 1901, Wurzburg Germany gained what will later become one of the most influential people of the science and quantum physics community. His father, August Heisenberg and his mother Nee Anna Wecklein. Werner attended the University of Munich. He then became an assistant and student under Max Born at the University of Gottingen. During the time from 1920 to 1923 he earned his doctorate.
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Quantum Mechanics
In September of 1925 Werner Heisenberg along with his assistant Pascual Jordan, became the founders of Quantum Mechanics; Jordan, Born and himself then created Quantum Mechanics II in November of 1925, this piece became known as “the three man paper”. -
Uranium Project
In 1933 Nazi’s in Germany drafted Werner Heisenberg to work for them, he was criticized for working with them during World War II. He was isolated socially and academically. He worked on the Uranium Project, which was important to war time in 1939. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SeddiqLGzk -
Summary
From the beginning as Werner was progressing through life, he encountered many life changing events. He helped develop the Uncertanity Principle, Complementarity Principle, Spinor Eqaution, matrix mechanics and won the Noble Prize in Physics. He was a Jewish scientist that was drafted by the Nazi Party to help create the Uranium Project. Many believed Werner made the choice to delay the it. Later on he gave lectures about international projects and dies at age 74. -
