Werner Heisenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German theoretical physicist
Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1901
Place of Birth: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany
Date of Death: 01-Feb-1976
Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher, academic, mountaineer, non-fiction writer, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist
Nationality: German Empire
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Werner Heisenberg
- Werner Karl Heisenberg (; German: ['v???n? 'ha?zn??b???k]; 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.
- He is known for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927.
- Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "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 German nuclear weapons program during World War II.
- He travelled to occupied Copenhagen where he met and discussed the German project with Niels Bohr. Following World War II, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, which soon thereafter was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics.
- He was director of the institute until it was moved to Munich in 1958, when it was expanded and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. Heisenberg was also president of the German Research Council, chairman of the Commission for Atomic Physics, chairman of the Nuclear Physics Working Group, and president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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