Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976)

  • Heisenberg submits his first seminal paper

    Heisenberg submits "Quantum theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations" to the International Education Board Rockefeller Foundation fellowship
  • Heisenberg develops uncertainty principle

    Heisenberg develops uncertainty principle
    Heisenberg developed his uncertainty principle, while working on the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics.
  • Nominated for Nobel Prize

    Albert Einstein nominates Heisenberg for the nobel prize in physics
  • Heisenberg solves Ferromagnetism

    In his first paper published from Leipzig, Heisenberg used the Pauli exclusion principle to solve the mystery of ferromagnetism.
  • Lays foundation for Quantum field theory

    Heisenberg and Pauli submitted the first of two papers laying the foundation for relativistic quantum field theory.
  • Wins Nobel Prize in Physics

    Heisenberg was announced winner for the Prize for 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SeddiqLGzk