Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quantum mechanics. He discovered the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which shows there is a limit on how well position and velocity of a particle can be measured.
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Born | Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-12-05)5 December 1901 |
Died | 1 February 1976(1976-02-01) (aged 74) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany |
Resting place | Munich Waldfriedhof |
Nationality | German |
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Elisabeth Schumacher
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Children | 7 (incl. Jochen and Martin) |
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Fields | Theoretical physics |
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Thesis | On stability and turbulence of liquid flows (1923) |
Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
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