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Werner Heisenberg
German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner (1901–1976)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 December 1901
- Died
- 1 February 1976
- Place of birth
- Würzburg
- Place of death
- Munich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Heisenberg
- Father
- August Heisenberg
- Mother
- Annie Heisenberg
- Spouse
- Elisabeth Heisenberg
- Child
- Jochen Heisenberg, Martin Heisenberg, Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg, Wolfgang Heisenberg, Christine Mann, Barbara Heisenberg, Verena Heisenberg
- Sibling
- Erwin Heisenberg
- Field of work
- theoretical physics, mathematics
- Occupation
- theoretical physicist, mountaineer, non-fiction writer, university teacher, mathematician, physicist, nuclear physicist
- Citizenship
- German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West Germany
- Native language
- German
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Order of Merit, Niels Bohr International Gold Medal, Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Nobel Prize in Physics, Max Planck Medal, Matteucci Medal, Sigmund Freud Prize, Hall of Fame of German Research, Honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb, honorary doctorate of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- academic thesis
- Über Stabilität und Turbulenz von Flüssigkeitsströmen
- archives at
- archive of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- cause of death
- renal cell carcinoma, gallbladder cancer
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Arnold Sommerfeld
- doctoral student
- Edward Teller, Felix Bloch, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Rudolf Peierls, Friedwardt Winterberg, Hermann Arthur Jahn, Wang Foh-San, Șerban Țițeica, Richard John Eden, Peter Mittelstaedt, Wilhelm Brenig, Kurt Symanzik
- employer
- University of Göttingen, University of Copenhagen, Leipzig University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of St Andrews, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Max Planck Institute for Physics, German nuclear program during World War II
- Erdős number
- 4
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- lifestyle
- mysticism
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Göttingen Eighteen, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Werner Karl Heisenberg
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- uncertainty principle, Kramers–Heisenberg formula, Heisenberg group, isospin
- participant in
- 5th Solvay Conference on Physics, RuSHA Trial
- place of burial
- Munich Waldfriedhof
- place of detention
- Farm Hall
- significant event
- Operation Epsilon, Alsos Mission
- significant person
- Konrad Meyer-Hetling
- sport
- mountaineering
- student
- Erich Bagge
- topic's main category
- Category:Werner Heisenberg
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