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Born/ Death
Born December 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany—died February 1, 1976, Munich, West Germany -
Earned PHD
Earned his PHD University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen. -
Nobel Prize
Heisenberg discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. He earned a Nobel Prize in 1925 for his discovery. -
spectrum intensities of the electron
He realized that this could be expressed using matrix algebra. -
Uncertainty Principle was published
Discovered that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. according to Heisenberg, that the momentum (p) and position (x) of a particle could not both be exactly measured simultaneously.v -
Became Professor
At the young age 26, he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig. -
Quantom Field Theory
uniting quantum mechanics with relativity theory to comprehend the interaction of particles and (force) fields. -
Atomic Nucleus
He developed a model of proton and neutron interaction in an early description of what decades later came to be known as the strong force in Quantum Mechanics. -
Nobel Prize in Physics
He helped discover of the allotropic forms of hydrogen. -
Married
Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher, Where they had seven children, and resided in Munich. -
Professorship in Berlin
Heisenberg was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. -
WW2 POW
At the end of the Second World War Heisenberg, and other German physicists, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 after the war he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen, now called the Max Plank Institute for Physics. -
Chairmen of Scientific Policy
He was for several years Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee of this Institute and subsequently remained a member of this Committee. -
Honorary Docterate
Heisenberg received an honorary doctorate of the University of Bruxelles, of the Technological University Karlsruhe.