werner heisenberg
Born: 5-Dec-1901
Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
Died: 1-Feb-1976
Location of death: Munich, Germany
Cause of death: Cancer - Kidney
Remains: Buried, Waldfriedhof, Munich, Germany
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle German physicist Werner Heisenberg studied under Max Born, David Hilbert, and Arnold Sommerfeld, and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932. His 1925 theory of quantum mechanics offered a matrix method to explain stationary discrete energy states, and was soon superseded by Erwin Schrِdinger's more intuitive wave equation. Of more lasting impact was his 1927 uncertainty principle, which states that it is impossible to accurately measure both position and momentum (energy and time) concurrently, and that the more precisely we know an object's position the less precisely we can know its momentum, and vice versa. In 1932 he explained the principle of isotopic spin (isospin), a quantum number which arises from regarding different members of a charge multiplet as different states of a single particle. During World War II he led Germany's failed efforts to develop an atomic bomb, though his group never came close to achieving this goal and Heisenberg himself doubted it was possible. After the war he was briefly imprisoned in England, before resuming his academic work in Germany. His other areas of research included cosmic rays, ferromagnetism, the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, and subatomic particles. He was a co-founder of the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). Father: Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg (teacher, b. 13-Nov-1869, d. 22-Nov-1930)
Mother: Annie Wecklein (b. 22-Sep-1871, m. 23-May-1999, d. 1945)
Brother: Erwin Heisenberg (chemist, b. 1900, d. 1965)
Wife: Elisabeth Schumacher (b. 4-Jul-1914, m. 29-Apr-1937, d. 27-Feb-1998, seven children)
Daughter: Anna Maria Heisenberg (b. Jan-1938 twin)
Son: Wolfgang Heisenberg (b. Jan-1938, d. 1994 twin)
Son: Jochen Heisenberg (nuclear physicist, b. 1939)
Son: Martin Heisenberg (neurobiologist, b. 7-Aug-1940)
Daughter: Barbara Heisenberg (b. Nov-1942)
Daughter: Christine Heisenberg Mann
Daughter: Verena Heisenberg
Born: 5-Dec-1901
Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
Died: 1-Feb-1976
Location of death: Munich, Germany
Cause of death: Cancer - Kidney
Remains: Buried, Waldfriedhof, Munich, Germany
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle German physicist Werner Heisenberg studied under Max Born, David Hilbert, and Arnold Sommerfeld, and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932. His 1925 theory of quantum mechanics offered a matrix method to explain stationary discrete energy states, and was soon superseded by Erwin Schrِdinger's more intuitive wave equation. Of more lasting impact was his 1927 uncertainty principle, which states that it is impossible to accurately measure both position and momentum (energy and time) concurrently, and that the more precisely we know an object's position the less precisely we can know its momentum, and vice versa. In 1932 he explained the principle of isotopic spin (isospin), a quantum number which arises from regarding different members of a charge multiplet as different states of a single particle. During World War II he led Germany's failed efforts to develop an atomic bomb, though his group never came close to achieving this goal and Heisenberg himself doubted it was possible. After the war he was briefly imprisoned in England, before resuming his academic work in Germany. His other areas of research included cosmic rays, ferromagnetism, the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, and subatomic particles. He was a co-founder of the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). Father: Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg (teacher, b. 13-Nov-1869, d. 22-Nov-1930)
Mother: Annie Wecklein (b. 22-Sep-1871, m. 23-May-1999, d. 1945)
Brother: Erwin Heisenberg (chemist, b. 1900, d. 1965)
Wife: Elisabeth Schumacher (b. 4-Jul-1914, m. 29-Apr-1937, d. 27-Feb-1998, seven children)
Daughter: Anna Maria Heisenberg (b. Jan-1938 twin)
Son: Wolfgang Heisenberg (b. Jan-1938, d. 1994 twin)
Son: Jochen Heisenberg (nuclear physicist, b. 1939)
Son: Martin Heisenberg (neurobiologist, b. 7-Aug-1940)
Daughter: Barbara Heisenberg (b. Nov-1942)
Daughter: Christine Heisenberg Mann
Daughter: Verena Heisenberg
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