BIOGRAPHY WERNER HEISEMBERG

Germany is historically called land of poets and thinkers and I Would say land of genius to, persons as: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Werner Heisemberg, Max Planck, Alberth etc. They have been very representative characters..

Characters very important were born in Germany, Carl Frederich Gauss, David Hilbert, Bernhard Riemman, Gottfried Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, Werner Heisenberg and Max Born , Hermann von Helmholtz, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit. Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays, they were physics en mathematics very important..

BIOGRAPHY WERNER KARL HEISENBERG

Werner Heisenberg was born on 5th December, 1907, at Wusburg-Germany. He was the son of Dr. August Heisenberg and his wife Annie Wecklein.

Heisenberg went to the Maximilian Scholl until 1920, during winter 1922-1923 he went to Gottingen to study physics under Max Born, Franck, and Hilbert; in 1923 he took his PhD at the University of Munich.

From 1924 until 1925 he worked, whit a Rockefeller Grant, whit Neil’s Bohr, at the University of Copenhagen, in 1927 when he was only 26, he was appointed Professor of theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzing.

In 1941 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the university of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilhem Institute for Physics There.

At the end of second World War he, and other German Physicist, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 return to Germany and reorganized with colleagues the institute for Physic of Gottingenh, this institute was, in 1948, renamed the Max Planck Institute for physics.

He gave various lectures around world (Japan, E.U England), in 1958 he was Professor of the university of Munich in the institute of Physics end Astrophysics...

Heisenberg’s name will always be associated with theory of quantum Mechanics published in 1925, when he was only 23 years old. Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932 whit his famous principle of uncertainty.

Since 1953 his own theoretical work was concentrated for the unified field theory of elementary particles.

Apart from many medals and prizes, Heisenberg received an honorary doctorate of the university of Bruxelas, of the Technological University end the university of Budapest, he is also recipient of the order Merit of Bavaria, and Grand Cross for Federal Services with Star, he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and a Knight of the Order of Merit, he was a member of Academies of Sciences of Gottingen, Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Swedeb, Rumania, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands; Rome, The German Academia Deer, and the American Academy, During 1949-1953 he became President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

One of his hobbies was classical music: he was distinguished pianist, in 1937 Heisenberg married Elisabeth Schumacher, and they had seven children, and lived Munich

Werner Heisenberg died on February 1, 1976