Werner Heisenberg
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1932for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen
- Citizenship
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Weimar Republic 
German Empire 
West Germany 
Nazi Germany - Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 12/5/1901
- place of birth
- Würzburg
- date of death
- 2/1/1976
- place of death
- Munich
- Lived
- 74 years
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- employer
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- Max Planck Institute for Physics
- end time: 1970
- start time: 1946
- University of St Andrews
- end time: 1956
- start time: 1955
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- end time: 1958
- start time: 1958
- German nuclear program during World War II
- end time: 1945
- start time: 1941
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- end time: 1941
- start time: 1941
- Leipzig University
- end time: 1941
- start time: 1927
- University of Copenhagen
- end time: 1927
- start time: 1926
- University of Göttingen
- end time: 1924
- start time: 1924
- Max Planck Institute for Physics
- member of
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- Japan Academy
- start time: 1/12/1965
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1961
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- end time: 10/1/1942
- start time: 7/1/1930
- Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- start time: 10/1/1942
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 10/5/1947
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1937
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- start time: 1933
- German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
- Göttingen Eighteen
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Royal Society of London
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Romanian Academy
- Japan Academy
- educated at
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- Maximiliansgymnasium München
- start time: 1911
- end time: 1920
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- start time: 1920
- end time: 1923
- Maximiliansgymnasium München
- doctoral student
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- Detlof Julius Alexander Ponsonby Lyon
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
- Wilhelm Brenig
- Hermann Arthur Jahn
- Viktor Alexander Garten
- Fritz Kluge
- Gerhard Börner
- Edwin Karl Gora
- Hans Werner Fiedler
- Horst Müller
- Hildegard Geest
- Otto Günther
- Gerhard Martin
- Willem van der Grinten
- Edward Teller
- Rudolf Peierls
- Felix Bloch
- Friedwardt Winterberg
- Wilhelm Macke
- Ivan Supek
- Alfred Recknagel
- Peter Mittelstaedt
- Șerban Țițeica
- Ludwig Bewilogua
- Werner Güttinger
- Kurt Symanzik
- Bernhard Kockel
- Hans Heinrich Euler
- Wang Foh-San
- Richard John Eden
- occupation
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- university teacher
- mountaineer
- nuclear physicist
- non-fiction writer
- theoretical physicist
- mathematician
- physicist
- notable work
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- isospin
- Kramers–Heisenberg formula
- uncertainty principle
- Heisenberg group
- field of work
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- theoretical physics
- mathematics
- work location
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- Munich
- Leipzig