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1932 (5) |
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Werner (3) |
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45. Other Awards |
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Bavarian Order of Merit (7) |
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Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (23) |
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Matteucci Medal (29) |
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Max Planck Medal (20) |
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Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (8) |
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Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (65) |
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Sigmund Freud Prize (1) |
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| complete name: |
Werner Karl Heisenberg |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1932 |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/1 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932 was awarded to Werner Karl Heisenberg "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Werner |
| family name: |
Heisenberg |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
mathematician |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| occupation: |
academic |
| occupation: |
mountaineer |
| occupation: |
non-fiction writer |
| occupation: |
nuclear scientist |
| occupation: |
theoretical physicist |
| field of work: |
mathematics |
| field of work: |
theoretical physics |
| work location: |
Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany |
| description: |
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932 "for the creation of quantum mechanics". He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. He was a principal scientist in the German nuclear energy project during World War II. He travelled to occupied Copenhagen where he infamously met and discussed the German project with Niels Bohr. Following the meeting, Bohr fled to the Allies disclosing secrets about the program. Following World War II, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, which soon thereafter was renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He was director of the institute until it was moved to Munich in 1958, when it was expanded and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. Heisenberg was also president of the German Research Council, chairman of the Commission for Atomic Physics, chairman of the Nuclear Physics Working Group, and president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. |
| pronunciation: |
(German: [ˈhaɪzənbɛɐ̯k]) |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1932/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1901 |
| date death: |
1976 |
| usual name: |
Werner Heisenberg |
