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Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg

1901–1976

German theoretical physicist (1901–1976)

Late 20th Century

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Key Dates

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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Timeline

1901
Birth

German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)

December 5 →
1927
Event

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 →
1976
Death

German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

February 1 →

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