Werner Heisenberg
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Heisenberg in 1933
Born
Werner Karl Heisenberg

(1901-12-05)5 December 1901
Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died1 February 1976(1976-02-01)(aged 74)
Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Resting placeMunich Waldfriedhof
Alma mater
  • University of Munich
  • University of Göttingen
Known for
 
  • Uncertainty principle
  • Copenhagen interpretation
  • 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
  • Heisenberg–Langevin equations
  • Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian
  • Kramers-Heisenberg formula
  • Isospin
  • Matrix mechanics
  • Bootstrap model
  • C*-algebra
  • Exchange force
  • Exchange interaction
  • Electron hole theory
  • Mott problem
  • Quantum fluctuation
  • Quantum spacetime
  • Resonance (chemistry)
  • S-matrix
  • S-matrix theory
  • Proton–neutron model of the nucleus
  • Vacuum polarization
  • Wave function collapse
  • Uranprojekt
Spouse(s)
Elisabeth Schumacher
(m. 1937)
Children7 (incl. Jochen and Martin)
Awards
  • Matteucci Medal (1929)
  • Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1930)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
  • Max Planck Medal (1933)
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1955)
  • Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1961)
  • Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1970)
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Institutions
  • University of Göttingen
  • University of Copenhagen
  • University of Leipzig
  • University of Berlin
  • University of Munich
ThesisÜber Stabilität und Turbulenz von Flüssigkeitsströmen (On stability and turbulence of liquid flows) (1923)
Doctoral advisorArnold Sommerfeld
Other academic advisors
  • Niels Bohr
  • Max Born
Doctoral students
  • Felix Bloch
  • Edward Teller
  • Rudolf E. Peierls
  • Reinhard Oehme
  • Friedwardt Winterberg
  • Șerban Țițeica
  • Ivan Supek
  • Erich Bagge
  • Hermann Arthur Jahn
  • Hans Heinrich Euler
Other notable students
  • William Vermillion Houston
  • Guido Beck
  • Ugo Fano
  • Ettore Majorana
  • Herbert Wagner
Influenced
  • Robert Döpel
  • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
Signature
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