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Werner Heisenberg

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Nobel Prize in Physics Recipient. Werner Heisenberg received world-wide acclaim as a German physicist, who was a co-founder of the quantum mechanics, introduced the uncertainly principle and received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics. He made important contributions to the research of the atomic nucleus, hydrodynamics of...

Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known.

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Say his name: Werner Heisenberg.

For those who aren't familiar with the uncertainty principle: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle basically says you can either know exactly where a particle is or exactly how fast it's going, but not ...

Werner Heisenberg

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The three Titans of quantum mechanics: (L-R) Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger at the Stockholm Railway Station, c. 1933.

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The way physicists talk about the Many-Worlds Interpretation makes vivid use of metaphor, but introduces confusion. Really, it's just a bookkeeping trick.

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Heisenberg at work.

Explore the life of Werner Heisenberg, his contributions to quantum mechanics, and his legacy in modern physics, including the Uncertainty Principle.