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Heisenberg's love and curiosity for physics began when he read Plato's Timeaus as a teen.
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At University of Munich and U. of Gottingen
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Listened to Niel Bohr speak on physics - had a lasting effect on him -
Heisenberg, Werner. “Über Stabilität Und Turbulenz Von Flüssigkeitsströmen.” Annalen Der Physik, vol. 379, no. 15, 1924, pp. 577–627., https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.19243791502. -
He worked as professor at Gottingen simultaneously working towards his doctorate.
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While at Gottingen, Heisenberg was a Privatdozent - which the equivalent of a tenured professor. During this time, he studied with Niels Bohr at the University of Copenhagen.
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Heisenberg, W. Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik. Z. Physik 43, 172–198 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01397280 -
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He was awarded the 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 Heisenberg – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Tue. 25 Apr 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/heisenberg/facts/ -
Heisenberg writes about the central ideas of quantum physics and the uncertainty principle. The general idea that Heisenberg discusses is that words in daily life lose meaning in the world of quantum physics. Heisenberg, Werner. Physik Und Philosophie (Physics and Philosophy, DT.). Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1959. -
On religion and science, Heisenberg stated: "Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of thought, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point." HEISENBERG, WERNER. “SCIENTIFIC TRUTH AND RELIGIOUS TRUTH.” CrossCurrents, vol. 24, no. 4, 1975, pp. 463–73. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24457901. Accessed 25 Apr. 2023.
