Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Karl Heisenberg (* December 5th, 1901 in Würzburg; † Februar 1st, 1976 in Munich) was a German physicist, Nobel Prize winner and founder of Quantum mechanics.
Heisenberg was the son of a professor for Bycantinist studies in Würzburg. He finished school and began to study physics in Munich. Arnold Sommerfeld was one of his teachers. He needed only 3 years to finish his studies and wrote his doctorade thesis about stability and turbulence in liquid flews ("Über Stabilität und Turbulenz von Flüssigkeitsströmen"). In 1924 he became assistent of Max Born in Göttingen and worked together with Niels Bohr in Copenhaven.
Together with Born and Pascal Jordan he founded Quantum mechanics. In the age of 26 he became professor for Theoretical Physics in Leipzig. In the year 1932 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. For years later he married.
From 1942 to 1945 he was head of the German atomic research project. From 1945 to 1946 he was arrested in Farm Hall.
Up from 1946 he was head of a new resaerch institute. After the World War II he forced nuclear research in West Germany, but he was strictly against nuclear weapons.
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