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Werner Heisenberg Birth
Werner Heisenberg was born at Würzburg, Germany on December 5th, 1901 to Dr. August Heisenberg and Annie wecklein. -
Matrix Mechanics
Matrix mechanics was a logically consistent formulation of quantum mechanics created by Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan. This also served as a starting point for Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Old quantum theory described motion of a particle as a classical orbit with a defined position and momentum, but with a restriction that time integral over one period must be a positive integer of Planck's constant. Though this did not describe time dependent processes. -
Heisenberg Uncertainty principle
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What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? TED-Ed
The uncertainty principle was discovered by Werner Heisenberg to describe the phenomenon of what happens when you observe a particle. You can either know where it is at or where it is going, but not both at the same time. -
World War II
During World War II Heisenberg was the main contributor to the German atomic program and was in direct competition with the Manhattan project. By the end of 1942 the German nuclear energy program would not end the war, so the German scientists turned their focus to immediate impacts on the war. In 1944-1995 Heisenberg and many other German physicists were captured and moved to Farm Hall in England following the end of the war. -
Werner Heisenberg Death
Werner Heisenberg died February 1st, 1976 from kidney cancer. Bibliography:
Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and Philosophy: the Revolution of Modern Science. Penguin, 2000.
Heisenberg, Werner. The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory. Translated into English by Carl Eckart and Frank C. Hoyt. University of Chicago Press, 1930.
Heisenberg, Werner. Physics and beyond Encounters and Conversations. Allen & Unwin, 1971.
