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Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg, shortened in and best known as August Heisenberg (November 13, 1869 in Osnabrück – November 22, 1930 in Munich), was a German Byzantinist. His son was Werner Heisenberg. Heisenberg came from a Westphalian family of craftsmen.
His parents, Dr. August Heisenberg and Anna (Annie) Heisenberg, married in 1899 after Anna converted from Catholicism to August's Lutheran faith. August was an expert on middle and modern Greek philology; Annie was the daughter of a Gymnasium principal and authority on Greek tragedy.
Werner Karl Heisenberg ( pronounced [ˈvɛʁnɐ kaʁl ˈhaɪzn̩bɛʁk] ⓘ; 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) [2] 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.
The frightening possibility that this German effort might succeed in providing Hitler with a nuclear weapon was one of the driving forces of the Manhattan Project in the United States, which produced the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in August 1945. Heisenberg's leading role in German nuclear research during the war has been the subject of ...
Sep 14, 2017 · A chapter from a book series on the history of science and technology, covering the development of matrix mechanics from 1919 to 1925. It traces the contributions of Born, Heisenberg, and Jordan, who introduced discontinuous quantum transitions, quantum vectors, matrix multiplication, commutation relations, and quantum equations of motion.
- Herbert Capellmann
- capell@physik.rwth-aachen.de
- 2017
Learn about August Heisenberg, a professor of Greek philology and the father of Werner Heisenberg, the co-discoverer of quantum mechanics. Find out how Werner Heisenberg's childhood, education and research shaped his revolutionary contributions to physics.
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Werner Heisenberg (born December 5, 1901, Würzburg, Germany—died February 1, 1976, Munich, West Germany) was a German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932.
