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Werner Heisenberg

Also known as Werner Karl Heisenberg, Heisenberg, Werner K. Heisenberg

German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)

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Werner Heisenberg was a male artist and author from Germany. He was born in 1901 and died in 1976. His notable works include *Wandlungen in den Grundlagen der Naturwissenschaft*, *Die physikalischen prinzipien der quantentheorie*, *Liebe Eltern!*, *Der Teil und das Ganze*, and *German unification in European perspective*. He received one Nobel Prize and is recognized in the Royal Society, American Academy Arts Sciences, Nobel Laureates, and Nobel Physics collections.

Heisenberg has an Erdős number of 4 and is referenced by 995 other encyclopedia articles. His quotes include statements on the precision of measurement and the nature of expertise. He is associated with 5 works in Crossref and has 28 listeners and 608 playcounts on Last.fm.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1932
“for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Werner
Gender: male
Citizenship: West Germany
Place of birth: Würzburg
Place of death: Munich
Father: August Heisenberg
Occupation: nuclear physicist
Employer: German nuclear program during World War II
Languages spoken: German
Native language: German
Notable work: isospin
Participant in: RuSHA Trial
Doctoral advisor: Arnold Sommerfeld
Doctoral student: Hans Heinrich Euler
Field of work: theoretical physics
Sport: mountaineering
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild183-R57262, Werner Heisenberg.jpg
Work location: Munich
Significant event: Alsos Mission

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cause of death: gallbladder cancer
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Commons category: Werner Heisenberg
date of birth: 1901-12-05
date of death: 1976-02-01
topic's main category: Category:Werner Heisenberg
Erdős number: 4
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Werner Heisenberg
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: Werner Karl Heisenberg
student: Erich Bagge
lifestyle: mysticism
place of burial: Munich Forest Cemetery
interested in: physics
significant person: Konrad Meyer-Hetling

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Encyclopedic overview

Werner Karl Heisenberg (/ˈhaɪ.zən.bɜːrɡ/; German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.

Heisenberg published his Umdeutung paper in 1925, a major reinterpretation of old quantum theory. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, his matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. He is known for the uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics".

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