Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg in 1933, as professor at Leipzig University
Born	Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-12-05)5 December 1901 Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died	1 February 1976(1976-02-01) (aged 74) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Resting place	Munich Waldfriedhof
Nationality	German
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Göttingen University of Copenhagen University of Leipzig University of Berlin University of Munich
Alma mater	University of Munich
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Sommerfeld
Other academic advisors	Niels Bohr Max Born
Doctoral students	Felix Bloch Edward Teller Rudolf E. Peierls Reinhard Oehme Friedwardt Winterberg Peter Mittelstaedt Șerban Țițeica Ivan Supek Erich Bagge Hermann Arthur Jahn Heimo Dolch Hans Heinrich Euler Edwin Gora Bernhard Kockel Arnold Siegert Wang Foh-san Karl Ott Bary F. Malik
Other notable students	William Vermillion Houston Guido Beck Ugo Fano Ettore Majorana Herbert Wagner
Known for	Uncertainty principle Heisenberg cut Heisenberg's entryway to matrix mechanics Heisenberg ferromagnet Heisenberg group Heisenberg limit Heisenberg's microscope Heisenberg model (classical) Heisenberg model (quantum) Heisenberg picture Isospin Matrix mechanics Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian Kramers-Heisenberg formula Bootstrap model C*-algebra Exchange interaction Mott problem Quantum fluctuation Resonance (chemistry) S-matrix S-matrix theory
Influenced	Robert Döpel Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Notable awards	Matteucci Medal (1929) Nobel Prize in Physics (1932) Max Planck Medal (1933) ForMemRS (1955)
Spouse	Elisabeth Schumacher (1937–1976)
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He was the father of the neurobiologist Martin Heisenberg and the son of

Werner Karl Heisenberg (German: [ˈhaɪzənbɛɐ̯k]; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics".

He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. He was a principal scientist in the Nazi German nuclear weapon project during World War II. He travelled to occupied Copenhagen where he met and discussed the German project with Niels Bohr.