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Werner Heisenberg 1901-1967 (Herby)

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  • 1946 BCE

    Post WW2

    After WW2, "in 1946 he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen. This Institute was, in 1948, renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics." Heisenberg continued to do research and lectures around the world. Werner Heisenberg – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Thu. 18 May 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/heisenberg/facts/
  • Period: 1933 BCE to 1946 BCE

    Heisenberg and Nazi Germany

    Heisenberg won his Nobel Prize in 1933, the same year that the Nazi party took over Germany. Leading into WW2, Heisenberg was less vocal about his dissent, but instead relied on cautious actions: 'Heisenberg’s response was mostly quiet interventions within the bureaucracy rather than overt public protest". Beylor, Richard. “Heisenberg and the Nazi Party.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Heisenberg/Heisenberg-and-the-Nazi-Party.
  • Period: 1920 BCE to 1924 BCE

    Education

    Heisenberg studied physics extensively at Maximilian school in Munich, The University of Munich, and Göttingen. "In 1923 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen, and in 1924 he gained the venia legendi at that University." Werner Heisenberg – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Thu. 18 May 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/heisenberg/biographical/
  • Period: 1901 BCE to 1976 BCE

    Lifespan

    Werner Heisenberg was born on 05 December, 1901 in Würzburg, Germany to his parent's Dr. August Heisenberg and his wife Annie Wecklein. "His father later became Professor of the Middle and Modern Greek languages in the University of Munich." He died in 1976 Werner Heisenberg – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. Thu. 18 May 2023. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/heisenberg/biographical/

  • Nobel Prize

    Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work in quantum field theory, "uniting quantum mechanics with relativity theory to comprehend the interaction of particles and (force) fields." as well as "developing a model of proton and neutron interaction in an early description of what decades later came to be known as the strong force." Beylor, Richard. “Heisenberg and the Nazi Party.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 July 1998, www.britannica.com/biography/Werner-Heisenberg/Heisenberg-and-the-Nazi-Party.