The Nobel Prize in Physics 1933
Awarded on: 1933-11-09
"for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"
Affiliations:
- Leipzig University – Leipzig, Germany
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Born: 1901-12-05 in Würzburg, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German theoretical physicist (1901–1976)
Biography
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II.