Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg (pronounced [ˈvɛʁnɐ kaʁl ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II. He published his Umdeutung paper in 1925, a major reinterpretation of old quantum theory. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, his matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. He is known for the uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Heisenberg has received more than 9,453,609 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Werner Heisenberg is the 19th most popular physicist (down from 15th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 44th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Physicist.

Werner Heisenberg is most famous for his uncertainty principle. This principle states that it is impossible to measure both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time.