biography
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Heisenberg, Werner (Karl)
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pronunciation:
[hiyznberg]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–76)
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Würzburg, SC Germany. He studied at Munich and Göttingen. After a brief period working with Max Born (1923) and Niels Bohr (1924–7), he became professor of physics at Leipzig (1927–41), director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin (1941–5), and director of the Max Planck Institute at Göttingen (and from 1958 at Munich). He developed a method of expressing quantum mechanics in matrices (1925), and formulated his revolutionary principle of indeterminacy (the uncertainty principle) in 1927. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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