Born

Werner Karl Heisenberg
5 December 1901(
1901-12-05)
Würzburg, Germany

Died

1 February 1976 (aged 74)
Munich, Germany

Nationality

Germany

Fields

Physics

Institutions

University of Göttingen
University of Copenhagen
University of Leipzig
University of Berlin
University of St Andrews
University of Munich

 

Alma mater

University of Munich

Doctoral advisor

Arnold Sommerfeld

Other academic advisors

Niels Bohr
Max Born

Doctoral students

Felix Bloch
Edward Teller
Rudolph E. Peierls
Reinhard Oehme
Friedwardt Winterberg
Peter Mittelstaedt
Şerban Ţiţeica
Ivan Supek
Erich Bagge
Hermann Arthur Jahn
Raziuddin Siddiqui
Heimo Dolch
Hans Euler
Edwin Gora
Bernhard Kockel
Arnold Siegert
Wang Foh-san

Other notable students

William Vermillion Houston
Guido Beck
Ugo Fano

Known for

Uncertainty Principle
Heisenberg's microscope
Matrix mechanics
Kramers-Heisenberg formula
Heisenberg group
Isospin

Influenced

Robert Döpel
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker

Notable awards

Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Max Planck Medal (1933)

Religious stance

Lutheran

 
Information Corner
For more on this related topic...

* The leading theory of the atom when Heisenberg entered the University of Munich in 1920 was the quantum theory of Bohr, Sommerfeld, and their co-workers
 
* His areas included the study of light emitted and absorbed by atoms (spectroscopy); the predicted properties of atoms and molecules; and the nature of light itself--

* Heisenberg engaged intensively in the theoretical study of all three of these areas of research. By 1924 physicists in Göttingen and Copenhagen were agreed that the old quantum theory had to be replaced by some new "quantum mechanics."

 

 

 

 

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