Werner+Heisenburg

Werner Heisenberg studied physics at The University of Munich where he received his PhD. At the age of 23 he published the Theory of Quantum Mechanics for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932. He was imprisoned during WWII in England do to his ties with the Nazi party and their work on an atomic bomb (below left). He is also famous for his paper known as The Principle of Uncertainty which claimed that we must allow mistakes in the study of he atomic structure because there have been so many mistakes previously. Heisenberg was knighted and passed away in 1976. Other Famous Knights.....