Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901–76) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1932 “for the creation of quantum mechanics”. He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles, and he was instrumental in planning the first West German nuclear reactor at Karlsruhe, together with a research reactor in Munich, in 1957. Considerable controversy surrounds his work on atomic research during World War II.
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
—Werner Heisenberg
Topics: Questioning, Nature
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
—Werner Heisenberg
Topics: Mistakes
It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
—Werner Heisenberg
Topics: Truth
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