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Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
Published “A Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations.” It explained why the electron orbiting around the nucleus of a Hydrogen atom is best described by probabilities rather than a fixed circular orbit. A strange aspect was non-commutative multiplication. This lead to Born and Jordan’s paper “On Quantum Mechanics.”
Heisenberg, Werner. “Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen.” Zeitschrift für Physik 33, 1925, pp. 879-893. -
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
Published, with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, “On Quantum Mechanics II,” widely considered the founding document of Quantum Mechanics. Also called the “three-man paper,” it is the sequel to the paper published a few months earlier by Born and Jordan, in which they create Matrix Mechanics, made possible by Heisenberg’s original paper in which he laid the mathematical foundation.
[https://youtu.be/c773SCKjHJs]
Born, Max, et al. “Zur Quantenmechanik II.” Zeitschrift für Physik 35, 1926, pp. 557-615 -
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
Published “On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics.” This described his uncertainty, or indeterminacy, principle. In quantum mechanics, the momentum and position of an atomic particle cannot both be precisely known at the same time. The better you know one, the more uncertain the other.
[https://youtu.be/TQKELOE9eY4]
Heisenberg, Werner. “Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik.” Zeitschrift für Physik 43, 1927, pp. 172-198. -
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - February 1, 1976)
Won the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.” (NobelPrize.org) This award was not announced until November 1933 and coincided with the announcement of the 1933 winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Erwin Scrödinger and Paul Dirac, who won for the development of quantum mechanics.
[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/summary]
