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Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist and philosopher, is famously known for developing the matrix mechanics formulation of quantum mechanics in 1925. With this development, came a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. With his work, he wrote a paper in Copenhagen with the help of Max Born and Erwin Schrödinger.
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Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
In 1927, Heisenberg put forth his uncertainty principle. Specifically, the principle was as follows: The more precisely you know the position of a particle, the less precisely you can simultaneously know the momentum of that same particle. (Jones, 2018) The principle basically explains that there is a limit to what we can know about the behavior of quantum particles. This principle, even today, is one of the most famous and possibly misunderstood ideas in physics. -
Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
In 1932, Werner Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. He received this award for his theory of quantum mechanics and his applications of it which resulted in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen. While he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932, he received it a year later in 1933. -
Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
On September 26, 1939, Werner Heisenberg was conscripted to join the War Office’s Nuclear Physics Research Group to begin atomic bomb research. For many years, Heisenberg felt that the development of an atomic bomb would be feasible, but three years later in 1942, him and other nuclear scientists determined that Germany did not have the resources to construct one during the war.