Heisenberg. Werner Karl

Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-76) German physicist, who became a professor at the University of Leipzig and, after World War II, at the Kiser Wilhelm Institute in Gottingen. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for his work on matrix mechanics. But he is best known for his 1927 discovery of the uncertainty principle. 

More so than any other physicist of the twentieth century, Werner Karl Heisenberg challenged our fundamental notions of the surrounding world. It could be argued that as the author of papers on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle, he nailed the coffin shut on the deterministic Newtonian version of the universe. Heisenberg replaced precision and accuracy with probabilities and uncertainties, and in so doing, he opened up the world of the subatomic to our understanding. 

German physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg (fifth from left), recipient of the 1932 Nobel 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. ... 

Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976). German physicist. One of the founders of modern quantum theory, Heisenberg re-ceived the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932. 

FIGURE 10.2 Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976). Heisenberg s uncertainty principle completely changed the way science understands the limitations in the ability to measure nature. In World War II, Heisenberg was in charge of the German atomic bomb project, which he apparently purposely delayed to minimize the chance that the Nazis would develop an atomic bomb. 

Werner Karl Heisenberg, 1901-1976, was a German physicist who invented matrix mechanics, a form of quantum mechanics equivalent to the Schrddinger formulation. He discovered the uncertainty principle, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize In physics. 

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