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Werner Heisenberg (12/5/1901-2/1/1976)

By KaylaWest

  • Read Plato's Timeaus

    Read Plato's Timeaus
    Heisenberg's love and curiosity for physics began when he read Plato's Timeaus as a teen.
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    Studied Physics

    At University of Munich and U. of Gottingen

  • Bohr Festival

    Bohr Festival
    Listened to Niel Bohr speak on physics - had a lasting effect on him

  • Published his dissertation on Stability and Turbulence in Liquid Flows

    Published his dissertation on Stability and Turbulence in Liquid Flows
    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.
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    Privatdozent fellowship

    He worked as professor at Gottingen simultaneously working towards his doctorate.
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    Studied under Bohr

    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.

  • Published paper regarding quantum theory and mechanics

    Published paper regarding quantum theory and mechanics
    Heisenberg, W. Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik. Z. Physik 43, 172–198 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01397280

  • Uncertainty Principle TED-Ed Video

    Uncertainty Principle

  • Nobel Prize in Physics

    Nobel Prize in Physics
    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/

  • Physics and Philosophy

    Physics and Philosophy
    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.

  • Awarded Romano Guardini Prize

    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.