Werner Heisenberg
1901 – 1976 · Germany · Physics
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932
The uncertainty principle.
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Who shaped Werner Heisenberg, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Niels Bohr
1885 – 1962 · Physics
Copenhagen was Bohr's institute; complementarity and uncertainty were argued into shape there.
Passed the work to1
- Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988 · Physics
Feynman's path integral is a third formulation beside matrix and wave mechanics.
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