Werner+Heisenberg-1928

Weiner Heisenberg was born on December 5, 1901 in Wurzberg, Germany. He lived to be 75 and died on February 1, 1976. Heisenberg was a theoretical physicist who is best known for quantum theory. Heisenberg was very interested in Neil Bohr's theory of atomic physics. From 1924-1925 Heisenberg worked with Bohr at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. During World War II Heisenberg was arrested under Operations Alsos and detained in England.

In 1927 Heisenberg developed his uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary position. After the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932, Heisenber submitted his idea of the neutron-proton model of the nucleus which won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Heisenberg's most known contribution to physics, quantum mechanics, is a set of principles describing physical reality at the atomic level of matter (molecules and atoms) and the subatomic (electrons, protons, and even smaller particles). In the quantum mechanics of a subatomic particle, one can never specify its state, such as simultaneous location and velocity, also known as the Heinsenberg uncertainty principle. Basically, Heinsenberg described the behavior of protons, neutrons, and electrons and described how they are in a constant motion. His contributions gave a new way to understand how an atom works and what it is comprised of.