German physicist Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976) was a pioneer in the formalization of atomic theory. He won the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the uncertainty principle, which states that it is impossible to specify the precise...

The son of a humanities professor at the University of Munich, Heisenberg was born in Duisberg, Germany on December 5, 1901. Following his early education at the Maximillian Gymnasium, in 1920 Heisenberg entered the University of Munich, where he...

Nobel prize winning physicist Werner Heisenberg was born in 1901, the second child of Annie and August Heisenberg. Heisenberg's father, August, was a professor of Greek languages at the University of Munich and a teacher at a secondary school, and as...

Heisenberg, Werner(1901–1976) The German physicist Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg; he studied physics in Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld and received his doctorate from Munich in 1923. Heisenberg became a lecturer and assistant to...

1901-1976 German Physicist Werner Heisenberg was a pioneer of quantum mechanics, a theory that deals with atomic particles in terms of probability functions. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 for his formulation of quantum mechanics...

Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century....

It is always tempting for a journalist - and it takes one to know one - to make a story interesting by making it up. Journalist-writer Thomas Powers has written a highly readable book about Werner Heisenberg, the so-called father of the Nazi...

HIROSHIMA has become the apex of the mountain of images that form the world's vision of the nuclear age. But at the inception of the Manhattan Project, few imagined that Japan would be part of the picture. The race for The Bomb began...

The world is a scrim, left blank for the tints and whorls of the ego. Void an object of its quantum of human aspiration, and you might as well annihilate it. I think, therefore I am. Fine, but even better: I desire, therefore you, he,...

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 675 pages, $32. In early 1931, Albert Einstein paid a visit to California that confirmed his status as a global celebrity. After being serenaded by 500 local girls upon his arrival in...