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Werner Heisenberg

1901 - 1976

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Werner Karl Heisenberg (; 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. He 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. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Heisenberg is the 22nd most popular physicist (down from 16th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Germany (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Physicist.

Werner Heisenberg is most famous for his uncertainty principle. This principle states that it is impossible to measure both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time.

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Among physicists, Werner Heisenberg ranks 22 out of 851. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger, Henri Becquerel, J. J. Thomson, James Prescott Joule, Ernest Rutherford, and Edward Victor Appleton. After him are William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Enrico Fermi, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Georg Ohm, Robert Hooke, and Maria Goeppert Mayer.

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Among people born in 1901, Werner Heisenberg ranks 3. Before him are Hirohito, and Walt Disney. After him are Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, Sukarno, Louis Armstrong, Rudolf Höss, Jacques Lacan, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Fulgencio Batista, and Clark Gable. Among people deceased in 1976, Werner Heisenberg ranks 5. Before him are Mao Zedong, Agatha Christie, Martin Heidegger, and Bernard Montgomery. After him are Howard Hughes, Alvar Aalto, Luchino Visconti, Zhou Enlai, Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, and Fritz Lang.

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Among people born in Germany, Werner Heisenberg ranks 48 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), and Felix Mendelssohn (1809). After him are Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Robert Koch (1843), Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), Thomas Mann (1875), and Gerd Müller (1945).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Werner Heisenberg ranks 4. Before him are Albert Einstein (1879), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), and Max Planck (1858). After him are Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Georg Bednorz (1950).

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