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When life began
Werener Heisenberg was born December 5, 1901, to father Dr. August Heisenberg and mother Anna Wecklein in a town named Wurzburg, Germany.
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Fascination with numbers
In 1914 Heisenberg's father was the head master of Maxamilians Gymnasium in Munich when the first world war broke out. The Gymnasium began filling up with German troops. Due to this, classes were divided or canceled, leaving Werner Heisenberg to create is own independent studies and became fascinated with the theory of numbers. This in the long run seemed to have been very beneficiary. It is to be believed that this was a big part in his successful future. -
Joining to pass the time
Heisenberg joined the Bavarian Soviet forces after the first world war had ended at the age of seventeen. He didn't take the enlistment seriously and took it more as a pastime -
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Working with well known philosophers
Between 1920 and 1923 Heisenberg was taken under Summerfeld's wing, a theoretical physicist at the Munich University and where he learned the power of optimism. He began going to Niels Bohr lectures in 1922 and later working with him on an atomic theory and thanks to Bohr, he learned a lot about physics. Later on after traveling for some time to the United States and Finland, he returned to Germany, to the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen where he met Einstein for the first time. -
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Lecturing The World
Heisenberg published The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory in 1928. In 1929 he traveled to the United States, India and Japan hoping that the mathematical property would lead to a fundamental property of nature with a 'fundamental length' as one of the constants of nature.
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Winning Big
In 1932 Werner Heisenberg was Honored by receiving the Nobel Prize for important work in Quantum Mechanics as well as nuclear physics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen."
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The Next Step In Life
In 1937 Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher 22, at a concert in which he was performing at the house of a friend. They later on married just three months after they had met. -
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Another World War
During the second world war, Heisenberg lead the German nuclear weapons project Uranverein. He worked on the development of a nuclear reactor with Otto Hahn, but failed to develop an effective program for nuclear weapons. After the war he was arrested by Alsos, a secret mission that followed the advancing Allied forces in Europe to determine the progress of Germany's atomic bomb project. -
Returning to Germany
Heisneberg returned to Germany in 1946 when he was appointed director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics at Göttingen, by this point he was know as a well renowned theoretical physicist. Continuing to give lectures on physicist and philosophy like the Gifford lectures until the instituted moved to Munich in 1955.
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Continuing to Write
Heisenberg was also interested in the philosophy of physics and wrote Physics and Philosophy (1962) and Physics and Beyond (1971). His last writings were of his memoirs, which other scientist regarded as troublesome. He wrote the book as more of a conversation (1969). -
Werner Heisenberg In a nutshell
Please click on the link to View Heisenbers life explained through a video.
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Teachings Live On.
Heisenberg died of cancer of the kidneys and gallbladder at his home, on 1 February 1976. He is buried at Munich Waldfriedhof.
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