Werner+Heisenberg(DD)

  
 * //__Werner Heisenberg__//**

date of birth: December 5th 1901 date of death: February 1st,1976 country of origin: Germany

· was born on 5th December, 1901, at Würzburg. · Heisenberg went to the Maximilian school at Munich until 1920, then went to the University of Munich to study physics under professors Sommerfeld, Wien, Pringsheim, and Rosenthal. · In 1923 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Munich after studying under Max Born and Franck · From 1924 until 1925 he worked, with a Rockefeller Grant, with Niels Bohr, at the University of Copenhagen · He followed up of Bohr’s previous theory of quantum mechanics · Although it was very successful in the early 1920s, three areas of research indicated that this theory was inadequate and would need to be replaced · These areas included the study of light emitted and absorbed by atoms (spectroscopy), the predicted properties of atoms and molecules, and the nature of light itself · After going through extremely hard math, which he figured out were matrices, he sent off the paper and got it published · Heisenberg created the breakthrough for quantum mechanics.
 * 1927 he is best known as the founder of quantum mechanics