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Werner Heisenberg: Who was Werner Heisenberg? Life Story
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Werner Heisenberg: Born
Werner Heisenberg was born on 5th December, 1901, at Würzburg. He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg and his wife Annie Wecklein. -
Werner Heisenberg: Summary
Werner Heisenberg went to the Maximilian school at Munich until 1920, when he went to the University of Munich to study physics under Sommerfeld, Wien, Pringsheim, and Rosenthal. During the winter of 1922-1923 he went to Göttingen to study physics. In 1923 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen.One of his hobbies is classical music he is a pianist. In 1937 Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher. They have seven children -
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
in 1926, Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle changed the direction and climate of physics and science as formulated at the time.The Principle exists as a defining feature of quantum mechanics. The Principle is close to the criteria of a paradigm shift. The Uncertainty Principle has with Kuhn’s description of a scientific revolution or paradigm shift, though, is in the changed worldview which accompanied this new theory. -
Nobel Prize
Heisenberg’s name will always be associated with his theory of quantum mechanics, published in 1925, when he was only 23 years old. For this theory and the applications of it which resulted especially in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen, Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932. -
After World War II
At the end of the Second World War he, and other German physicists, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen. This Institute was, in 1948, renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics. -
Werner Heisenberg: Died
Werner Heisenberg Died 1 February 1976, Munich, West Germany
