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Werner Heisenberg was born December 5th 1901 in Wurzburg, Germany
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Attended Maximilian School at Munich until 1920
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Heisenberg attended The University of Munich to study Physics under Sommerfeld, Wien, Pringsheim, and Rosenthal
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Winter of 1922-1923 went to Gottingen to study Physics under Max Born, Franck, and Hilbert
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Got his Ph.D. at University of Munich and become the assist to Max Born at the University of Gottingen
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He gained the prestige title of venia legendi at the University of Gottingen
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Worked with a Rockefeller Grant with Niels Bohr at the University of Copenhagen
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Published his Theory of Quantum Mechanics at 23 years of age
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Created Matrix Mechanics with Max Born and Pascual Jordan
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Appointed Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr
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Introduces in 1927 his Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal
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Appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at University of Leipzig at the age of 26
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In 1929 Werner Heisenberg went on a lecture tour in United States, Japan, and India
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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics
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Appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilheim Institute for Physics
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Invited to lecture in the United States in 1950 and 1955
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gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrew's in Scotland. These lecture would be subsequently published into book
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Worked on Problems of plasma physics and thermonuclear processes
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Died February 1 1976
