Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Germany. He was a scientist who had made a huge impact in terms of broadening our knowledge on atomic theory and played a pivotal role in developing quantum mechanics. For the most part, Heisenberg’s contributions were made during the 1920’s, before World War II.
In the 1920's, Heisenberg developed and described the uncertainty principle. This principle states that measuring the exact velocity and position of an object simultaneously was impossible. Ultimately, it told us that, if the certainty of one factor increases, the certainty of another factor will decrease. This uncertainty is seen to be very small in everyday objects, though when applied to subatomic particles (particles that are smaller than an atom) at microscopic level, it had a huge impact.
He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 as a result of his contributions to quantum mechanics.
In the 1920's, Heisenberg developed and described the uncertainty principle. This principle states that measuring the exact velocity and position of an object simultaneously was impossible. Ultimately, it told us that, if the certainty of one factor increases, the certainty of another factor will decrease. This uncertainty is seen to be very small in everyday objects, though when applied to subatomic particles (particles that are smaller than an atom) at microscopic level, it had a huge impact.
He won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932 as a result of his contributions to quantum mechanics.
Figure 1. Photograph of Heisenberg. 1930, lexpress. Retrieved November 3, 2016 from www.static.lexpress.fr.