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Werner Heisenberg
1901–1976
German theoretical physicist (1901–1976)
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Death
1976 February 1, 1976 →Biography
Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
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German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
February 23 →le prix Nobel de physique, qui n'avait pas été attribué en 1932, est remis rétroactivement aux physiciens allemand Werner Heisenberg, britannique Paul Dirac et autrichien Erwin Schrödinger, inventeurs/« découvreurs » de la mécanique ondulatoire.
December 10 →18 führende Atomwissenschaftler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wenden sich in der Göttinger Erklärung gegen die atomare Bewaffnung der Bundesrepublik. Es handelt sich um die Professoren Fritz Bopp, Max Born, Rudolf Fleischmann, Walther Gerlach, Otto Hahn, Otto Haxel, Werner Heisenberg, Hans Kopfermann, Max von Laue, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Josef Mattauch, Fritz Paneth, Wolfgang Paul, Wolfgang Riezler, Fritz Straßmann, Wilhelm Walcher, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker und Karl Wirtz.
April 12 →More from the Late 20th Century
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