Werner Heisenberg Quotes


The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.


Citations

Cassidy, David C. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg. W. H. Freeman, 1992, p. 382.

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Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
  • Born: December 5, 1901
  • Died: February 1, 1976
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Physicist

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. He is known for the uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics".