Werner Heisenberg
1901-1976
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Heisenberg was a German physicist and philosopher. In 1925 he discovered a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, 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 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.
Considerable controversy surrounds his work on atomic research for Nazi Germany during World War II. |
