Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

5 December 1901
1 February 1976
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Matteucci Medal (1929), Nobel Prize in Physics (1932), Max Planck Medal (1933), Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1930), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1955), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).

Werner Heisenberg played a crucial role in the creation of quantum mechanics, developing the matrix mechanics formulation, establishing that the behavior of atomic sized particles is very different from larger objects, sometimes with bizarre consequences. Although Albert Einstein did not like it, Heisenberg showed that God continuously plays dice with the universe.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known.

He likewise made significant commitments to the speculations of the hydrodynamics of tempestuous streams, the nuclear core, ferromagnetism, infinite beams, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in arranging the primary West German atomic reactor at Karlsruhe, along with an examination reactor in Munich, in 1957. Impressive contention encompasses his work on nuclear examination during World War II.