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Birth: Dec 5, 1901
Werner Heisenberg was born on Dec 5, 1901. -
Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations
Werner Heisenberg was one of the pioneers of quantum mechanics. His “Über quantentheoretische Umdeutung kinematischer und mechanischer Beziehungen” (Quantum-Theoretical Reinterpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations) was a breakthrough it was a way to formulate quantum mechanics using matrices. He sent his manuscript to Max Born to review and to decide whether to submit it for publication, which later on in the year they did, and it appeared in the Journal for Physics. -
Uncertainty Principle (Educational Video)
Link text This video shows a great example of how Heisenberg's uncertainty principle works. -
Uncertainty Principle
Werner Heisenberg is famously known for his discovery of the uncertainty principle. "The uncertainty principle states that the more precisely you measure one quantity, the less precisely you can know another associated quantity. The quantities sometimes come in set pairs that can't both be completely measured." This is saying that the more precise you measure the position of a particle, the harder it is to measure its momentum. -
Neutron-Proton Nucleus Model
Werner Heisenberg created the neutron-proton model as soon as the neutron was discovered. Werner had help from Dmitri Ivanenko to speculate how the neutron-proton nucleus model looks. -
Nobel Prize 1932, Actually 1933
Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel prize in 1932 “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.” But he had to wait until 1933 because the Nobel Committee for Physics decided that none of the year’s nominations met the criteria as outlined in the will of Alfred Nobel. -
Died: Feb 1,1976
Werner Heisenberg died of kidney cancer on Feb 1, 1976.
