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Born December 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany—died February 1, 1976, Munich, West Germany
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Earned his PHD University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen.
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Heisenberg discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. He earned a Nobel Prize in 1925 for his discovery.
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He realized that this could be expressed using matrix algebra.
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Discovered that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. according to Heisenberg, that the momentum (p) and position (x) of a particle could not both be exactly measured simultaneously.v
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At the young age 26, he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig.
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uniting quantum mechanics with relativity theory to comprehend the interaction of particles and (force) fields.
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He developed a model of proton and neutron interaction in an early description of what decades later came to be known as the strong force in Quantum Mechanics.
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He helped discover of the allotropic forms of hydrogen.
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Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher, Where they had seven children, and resided in Munich.
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Heisenberg was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics.
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At the end of the Second World War Heisenberg, and other German physicists, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 after the war he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen, now called the Max Plank Institute for Physics.
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He was for several years Chairman of the Scientific Policy Committee of this Institute and subsequently remained a member of this Committee.
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Heisenberg received an honorary doctorate of the University of Bruxelles, of the Technological University Karlsruhe.