Prof. Werner Carl Heisenberg - I662 - Individual Information

Prof. Werner Carl Heisenberg ‎(I662)‎

Prefix: Prof.
Given Names: Werner Carl
Surname: Heisenberg

Gender: Male Male

Birth: 5 December 1901

30 Würzburg
Death: 1 February 1976 ‎(Age 74)‎ Munich

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Birth	5 December 1901 32 30 Würzburg
Residence	1910 ‎(Age 8)‎ Munich
Worked on	1918 ‎(Age 16)‎ a farm as auxiliary service
Published	1922 ‎(Age 20)‎ his first paper on the classical hydrodynamical turbulence problem Note: Simultaneously he studied the classical hydrodynamical turbulence problem. On the publication of Heisenberg's first paper in this field in 1922, Sommerfeld remarked to Heisenberg's father: "You belong to an irreproachable family of philologists, and now you have the misfortune of seeing the sudden appearance of a mathematical-physical genius in your family." http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28551
Doctorate	1923 ‎(Age 21)‎ the University of Munich for a paper on laminar flow in the
Studied	1922/23 (1923) ‎(Age 21)‎ at Gottingen with Born and Bohr
Published	1924 ‎(Age 22)‎ his Habilitationschrift at Gottingen, entitling him to lecture
Appointed	1926/27 (1927) ‎(Age 25)‎ at the University of Copenhagen
Awarded	1932 ‎(Age 30)‎ Nobel Prize for Physics ‎(Uncertainty Principle)‎
Worked on	between 1928 and 1935 ‎(Age 26)‎ theory of quantum electrodynamics with Pauli and Dirac
Appointed	between 1927 and 1941 ‎(Age 25)‎ at the University of Leipzig
Marriage	Elisabeth Schumacher - 29 April 1937 ‎(Age 35)‎ St. Annenkirche, Berlin-Dahlem
Appointed	1941 ‎(Age 39)‎ at the University of Berlin
Involved Ib	between 1939 and 1942 ‎(Age 37)‎ the decision not to pursue a German nuclear weapons program
Visit	September 1941 ‎(Age 39)‎ Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and they discussed H's doubts about viability of nuclear bomb
Visit	4 June 1942 ‎(Age 40)‎ Albert Speer and suggested that it would be very difficult to make bomb
Detained	May 1945 ‎(Age 43)‎ Farm Hall, outside Cambridge, UK, with 10 other German physicists, and their conversations monitored
Death	1 February 1976 ‎(Age 74)‎ Munich

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Parents Family (F288)
Father	‎[Kaspar Ernst]‎ August Heisenberg 1869 - 1930
Mother	Annie Wecklein 1871 - 1945
Brother	Erwin Heisenberg 1900 - 1965
	Prof. Werner Carl Heisenberg 1901 - 1976

Immediate Family (F269)
Wife	Elisabeth Schumacher 1914 - 1998
Daughter	‎(Anna)‎ Maria Heisenberg 1938 -
Son	Wolfgang Heisenberg 1938 - 1994
Son	Prof. Jochen H. Heisenberg 1939 -
Son	Prof. Martin Heisenberg 1940 -
Daughter	Barbara Heisenberg 1942 -
Daughter	Christine Heisenberg -
Daughter	Verena Heisenberg -

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Note	"Fun" fact: from the marriage of Frido Mann and Christine Heisenberg in 1966 until Auden's death in 1973, he was related by marriage to two German-speaking Nobel Prize-winners: Thomas Mann and Werner Heisenberg. The Heinsenbergs met at a Jan 1937 concert in Leipzig at the part of the house of the publisher Otto Mittelstädt occupied by his in-laws the Bückings. Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg edited her father's correspondence with his parents. See Werner Heisenberg,, <i>Liebe Eltern! Briefe aus kritischer Zeit 1918 bis 1945</i>, ed., Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg ‎(München: Langen Müller, 2003)‎.
Published	Simultaneously he studied the classical hydrodynamical turbulence problem. On the publication of Heisenberg's first paper in this field in 1922, Sommerfeld remarked to Heisenberg's father: "You belong to an irreproachable family of philologists, and now you have the misfortune of seeing the sudden appearance of a mathematical-physical genius in your family." http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28551

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