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Birth
Werner Heisenberg was born in Wurzburg, Germany on 5 December 1901. -
Dissertation Submission
Heisenberg submitted a dissertation, which was a 59-page calculation titled "On the Stability and Turbulence of Liquid Currents" ,to the Munich faculty. -
Oral Examination for Dissertation
Werner Heisenberg went before four professors for this oral segment of this dissertation. One of the four people was his mentor, Arnold Sommerfeld. Heisenberg flawlessly answered Sommerfeld questions with ease but struggled on other questioning from the other three professors, the subjects were on astronomy and experimental physics. -
Discovery
In 1925, Heisenberg discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. -
Becoming a professor
At the age of twenty-six, he became professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leipzig. This position making him the youngest full professor. -
Publish
In 1927, Heisenberg published his uncertainty principle which is, that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. -
Nobel Piece Prize
Werner Heisenberg receiver the Nobel piece prize in physics for, "the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen." -
Marriage
Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher. -
Uranium Club
In 1942, he was asked by the Nazi administration to direct the Uranium Club's research more toward developing nuclear weapons and, when Heisenberg prevaricated, the authority and regulation of the project was changed. -
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Incarceration
Heisenberg was arrested and placed in captivity in England from April 1945 until the summer of 1946. -
CERN
Beginning in 1952, Heisenberg was instrumental in Germany’s participation in the creation of the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN). -
Unified Theory
In 1958 he proposed a unified field theory—newspaper stories referred to his “world formula”—which he saw as a symmetry-based approach to the proliferation of particles then under way. -
Goal
In 1958 Heisenberg also finally achieved the goal of an academic position in Munich, as the Max Planck Institute for Physics moved there in that year. -
Retirement
In 1970, Werner Heisenberg retired from his institute directorship. -
Health Problems
Heisenberg's health started to fail, and shortly after got seriously ill. -
Death
Heisenberg died of cancer of the kidneys and gall bladder at his Munich home on 1 February 1976, aged 74. -
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