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Werner Karl Heisenberg 5DEC1901-1FEB1976
Werner Heisenberg was a German physicist and philosopher who discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. A matrix is a set of numbers arranged in rows and columns so as to form a rectangular array. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQx1brDHuCs Werner (Karl) Heisenberg (1901–1976). (2018). In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide. -
Werner Karl Heisenberg 5DEC1901-1FEB1976
Heisenberg worked on the problem of spectrum intensities of the electron taken as a one dimensional vibrating system. His position that the theory should be based on only observable quantities was the back bone of his paper in July 1925 titled "Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations." He realized that this could be expressed using matrix algebra.
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Werner Karl Heisenberg 5DEC1901-1FEB1976
Heisenberg in March of 1927 wrote the paper "On the Perceptual Content Of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics."(March 23, 1927) In this paper he articulated the uncertainty or indeterminacy principle. He came to a philosophical conclusion, absolute casual determinism was impossible. He was challenged by Shrodinger and Einstein who thought the renunciation of deterministic casualty was physically incomplete. Nevertheless this was a paradigm shift in quantum physics. -
Werner Karl Heisenberg 5DEC1901-1FEB1976
In 1927 he embarked on a research program to create a quantum field theory uniting quantum mechanics with relativity theory in order to comprehend the interaction of particles and fields. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932. “Werner Heisenberg.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 21 Jan. 2021, www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Heisenberg. -
Werner Karl Heisenberg 5DEC1901-1FEB1976
In his later years Heisenberg took a more political role in the physics world. He was instrumental in the creation of the European Council for Nuclear Research. He retired from his institute directorship in 1970.