Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg in 1933
Born	Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-12-05)5 December 1901 Würzburg, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire
Died	1 February 1976(1976-02-01) (aged 74) Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Resting place	Munich Waldfriedhof
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Munich University of Göttingen
Known for	Uncertainty principle Heisenberg cut Heisenberg's entryway to matrix mechanics Heisenberg ferromagnet Heisenberg group Heisenberg limit Heisenberg's microscope Heisenberg model (classical) Heisenberg model (quantum) Heisenberg picture Isospin Matrix mechanics Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian Kramers-Heisenberg formula Bootstrap model C*-algebra Exchange interaction Mott problem Heisenberg–Langevin equations Quantum fluctuation Resonance (chemistry) S-matrix S-matrix theory Proton–neutron model of the nucleus Uranprojekt
Spouse	Elisabeth Schumacher ​ ​ (m. 1937)​
Children	7 (incl. Jochen and Martin)
Awards	Matteucci Medal (1929) Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1930) Nobel Prize in Physics (1932) Max Planck Medal (1933) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1955) Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1961)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Göttingen University of Copenhagen University of Leipzig University of Berlin University of Munich
Thesis	On stability and turbulence of liquid flows (1923)
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Sommerfeld
Other academic advisors	Niels Bohr Max Born
Doctoral students	Felix Bloch Edward Teller Rudolf E. Peierls Reinhard Oehme Friedwardt Winterberg Peter Mittelstaedt Șerban Țițeica Ivan Supek Erich Bagge Hermann Arthur Jahn Heimo Dolch Hans Heinrich Euler Edwin Gora Bernhard Kockel Arnold Siegert Wang Foh-san Karl Ott Bary F. Malik
Other notable students	William Vermillion Houston Guido Beck Ugo Fano Ettore Majorana Herbert Wagner
Influenced	Robert Döpel Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
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Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of quantum mechanics. He discovered the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which shows there is a limit on how well position and velocity of a particle can be measured.