Werner Heisenberg

Dates

December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976

Authorized Form of Name

Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976

Additional Forms of Names

Geĭzenberg, V. (Verner), 1901-1976

Heisenberg, W. (Werner), 1901-1976

Heisenberg, Werner (Werner Carl), 1901-1976

Гейзенберг, В. (Вернер), 1901-1976

فيرنر, هايزنبرج, 1901-1976

Biography

Abstract

Werner Heisenberg was a physicist, who specialized in quantum mechanics at Leipzig University. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen."

Important Dates

December 5, 1901Birth, Wurzburg (Germany).

1922 – 1924Research Assistant, University of Göttingen (Universität Göttingen), Göttingen (Germany).

1923Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Munich (Universität München), Munich (Germany).

1924 – 1941Researcher (1924-1925); Lecturer in Theoretical Physics (1926-1927); and Professor of Theoretical Physics (1927-1941), University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet), Copenhagen (Denmark).

1927Lecturer, University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig), Leipzig (Germany).

1929Awarded Matteucci Medal.

1929Awarded Max-Planck Medaille, Germany Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft).

1932Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen".

1943Member, Prussian Academy of Sciences.

1943 – 1945Professor of Physics and Chair for Theoretical Physics, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, Berlin (Germany).

1945 – 1946Detained by English and American forces as part of Manhattan Project Alsos Mission at Farm Hall.

1946 – 1970Director, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics (renamed Max Planck Institute of Physics and Astrophysics and moved to Munich), Berlin (Germany).

1949President, Germany Research Council (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).

1949Wrote "The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory".

1950 – 1954Lecture tour of the United States.

1953 – 1975President, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Washington (D.C.).

1955Wrote "Das Naturbild der heutigen Physik".

1955Foreign Member, Royal Society.

1955 – 1956Gave Clifford Lectures, University of St. Andrews.

1964Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Budapest (Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem).

1966Wrote "Philosophic Problems of Nuclear Science".

1970Awarded Niels Bohr International Gold Medal.

February 1, 1976Death, Munich (Germany).

Occupation

Quantum mechanics physicist.

Places

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics.

Ferromagnetism.

Nuclear physics.

Quantum mechanics.

Radiation -- Testing.

Relationships

People

Family

Heisenberg, Annie Wecklein

Mother.

Heisenberg, August

Father.

Heisenberg, Elisabeth Schumacher

Wife.

Advisors & Collaborators

Bagge, E. R. (Erich Rudolf), 1912-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Bloch, Felix, 1905-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig), Uber die Quantenmechanik der Elektronen in Kristallgittern (on the quantum mechanics of electrons in crystal lattices).

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962

PhD advisor at University of Copenhagen (Københavns universitet).

Born, Max, 1882-1970

PhD advisor at University of Göttingen (Universität Göttingen).

Brenig, Wilhelm

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Munich (Universität München).

Eden, R. J. (Richard John)

Advised by Heisenberg at Cambridge University.

Eder, Gernot, 1929-

Advised by Heisenberg at Max-Planck Institute for Physics (Max-Planck Institut für Physik).

Fano, Ugo

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Flügge, Siegfried

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Guth, Eugene

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Halpern, Otto, 1899-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Hartline, H. Keffer, 1903-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Hilbert, David, 1862-1943

Postdoctoral advisor at University of Göttingen (Universität Göttingen).

Houston, W. V. (William Vermillion), 1900-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Kockel, B. (Bernhard), 1909-

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Madelung, O. (Otfried)

Advised by Heisenberg at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

Mittelstaedt, Peter

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Göttingen (Universität Göttingen).

Nordsieck, Arnold T.

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Regge, Tullio

Advised by Heisenberg at Max-Planck Institute for Physics (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik).

Sommerfeld, Arnold, 1868-1951

PhD advisor at University of Munich (Universität München).

Teller, Edward, 1908-2003

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig) on the hydrogen molecular ion.

Ţiţeica, Şerban

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Tomonaga, Shin'ichiro, 1906-1979

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Uehling, Edwin A. (Edwin Albrecht), 1901-1985

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Leipzig (Universität Leipzig).

Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1912-2007

Advised by Heisenberg at University of Göttingen (Universität Göttingen).

Zumino, B. (Bruno), 1923-

Advised by Heisenberg at Max Planck Institute, Göttingen

Additional

Allmendinger, Michael

Anshen, Ruth Nanda

Ball, Philip, 1962-

Beck, Guido, 1903-1988

Biermann, Ludwig, 1907-1986

Blackett, P. M. S. (Patrick Maynard Stuart), Baron Blackett, 1897-1974

Bleuler, Konrad, 1912-

Bohm, David, 1917-1992

Bohr, Aage

Bohr, Margrethe

Bopp, F. A.

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981

Broglie, Louis de, 1892-1987

Burger, Herman Carel, 1893-1965

Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974

Butenandt, Adolf, 1903-

Cappellari, Simona

Casimir, H. B. G. (Hendrik Brugt Gerhard), 1909-2000

Chew, Geoffrey F.

Chissick, Seymour S.

Compton, Arthur Holly, 1892-1962

Compton, Betty Charity McCloskey, 1916-

Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

Debye, Peter J. W. (Peter Josef William), 1884-1966

Delbrück, Max

Dennison, David M. (David Mathias), 1900-1976

Dirac, P. A. M. (Paul Adrien Maurice), 1902-1984

Dörries, Matthias

Durr, H.-P. (Hans-Peter), 1929-

Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Elsasser, Walter M., 1904-

Ewald, Paul Peter, 1888-1985

Feinberg, Evgenii L'vovich

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988

Fok, V. A. (Vladimir Aleksandrovich), 1898-1974

Franck, James, 1882-1964

Frank, Charles, Sir

Frank, Philipp, 1884-1966

Frayn, Michael

Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-

Garwin, Richard L.

Geiger, Hans, 1882-

Goodman, Murray, 1928-

Gorter, C. J. (Cornelis Jacobus), 1907-

Goudsmit, Irene Bejach

Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978

Hafstad, Lawrence, 1904-

Harteck, Paul, 1902-

Hartwig, Georg

Herneck, Friedrich

Herzfeld, Karl F. (Karl Ferdinand), 1892-

Hoyt, Frank Clark, 1898-

Hund, Friedrich, 1896-1997

Inglis, David Rittenhouse, 1905-1995

Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles

Johnson, Thomas Hawkins, 1943-1990

Jordan, Pascual, 1902-1980

Klein, Oskar

Korn, Elizabeth P.

Kramers, Hendrik Anthony, 1894-1952

Kraus, John Daniel, 1910-2004

Krekeler, Heinz L., 1906-

Kronig, R. (Ralph), 1904-

Landé, Alfred, 1888-

Laporte, Otto, 1902-1971

Lenzen, Victor F. (Victor Fritz), 1890-1975

Leoprechting, Bettina von

Libby, Stephen B.

Lust, Reimar, 1923-

Macke, Wilhelm

Majorana, Ettore

Margenau, Henry, 1901-1997

Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 1906-1972

McVittie, George C. (George Cunliffe)

Medicus, Heinrich, 1918-

Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968

Minkowski, H. (Hermann), 1864-1909

Moller, C. (Christian), 1904-1980

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Nix, Foster Cary, 1905-

Nordheim, Lothar, 1899-

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

Pauli, Wolfgang, 1900-1958

Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958

Peierls, Rudolf E. (Rudolf Ernst), 1907-1995

Perrin, Michael Wilcox

Petersen, Aage

Pippard, A. B.

Plotnitsky, Arkady

Polanyi, Michael, 1891-1976

Pomerans, Arnold

Popper, Karl Raimund, Sir

Rabi, I. I. (Isidor Isaac), 1898-1988

Rasmussen, Ebbe, 1901-

Recami, Erasmo

Rechenberg, Helmut

Reiche, F. (Fritz), 1883-1969

Richardson, O. W. (Owen Willans), 1879-1959

Riehl, Nikolaus

Rosenfeld, L. (Leon), 1904-1974

Rozental, S. (Stefan)

Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937

Schaaf, Michael, 1963-

Schrieffer, J. R. (John Robert), 1931-

Schrödinger, Annemarie, 1896-1965

Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961

Schultz, Betty

Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-

Sessler, A. M. (Andrew Marienhoff)

Shankland, Robert S., 1908-

Slater, John C. (John Clarke), 1900-1976

Sponer, Hertha, 1895-1968

Stark, Johannes, 1874-1957

Stern, Otto, 1888-1969

Stromgren, Bengt, 1908-1987

Suess, Hans Eduard, 1909-

Tamm, I. E. (Igor' Evgen'evich), 1895-1971

Telschow, Ernst, 1889-1988

Touschek, Bruno, 1921-

Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988

Unsold, Albrecht, 1905-

Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981

Van Vleck, J. H. (John Hasbrouck), 1899-1980

Von Neumann, John, 1903-1957

Waerden, B. L. van der (Bartel Leendert)

Waller, Ivar, 1898-1991

Walton, Ernest, 1903-1995

Welker, Heinrich Johann, 1912-1981

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

Westphal, Wilhelm

Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955

Weyssenhoff, Johann Virgilius von, 1889-1972

Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008

Wiemers, Gerald

Wien, W. (Wilhelm), 1864-1928

Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995

Wilson, Alan Herries

Institutions

Major Positions

Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin

Professor of Physics and Chair for Theoretical Physics.

Københavns universitet

Researcher; Lecturer in Theoretical Physics; and Professor of Theoretical Physics.

Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik

Director, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics through its renaming to the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik und Astrophysik.

Universität Göttingen

Research Assistant.

Universität Leipzig (1409-1953)

Lecturer.

University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy

Lecturer.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

President.

Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem

Awarded Honorary Doctorate.

Cornell University

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

President.

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (1963- )

Awarded 1929 Max-Planck Medaille.

Manhattan Project (U.S.)

Detained at Farm Hall by English and American forces from 1945-1946.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

Royal Society (Great Britain)

Foreign Member.

Universitat Munchen. Fakultat fur Physik

Obtained PhD in Physics (1923).

University of Chicago. Department of Physics

Resources

Archival Resources

Author

Course notes from Werner Heisenberg's lectures on relativity, 1940.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Die abstraktion in den modernen naturwissenschaften [sound recording] and aus meinen Leben, 1962.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Lectures of Werner Heisenberg and E. T. S. Walton given at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in 1955 and 1968 respectively [sound recording].

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1962 November 30, 1963 February 7, 11, 13, 15, 19, 22, 25, 27, 28 and 1963 July 5, 12.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Oral history interview with Werner Heisenberg, 1970 June 16.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Recent progress in the unified field theory of elementary particles [sound recording]: address delivered at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium, 1973 May 19.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

The development of the uncertainty principle [sound recording], 1968 July.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Werner Heisenberg correspondence and manuscripts [microform], 1924-1958.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Werner Heisenberg correspondence and manuscripts, 1924-1958.

In private hands

In Heisenberg's possession in 1963

Werner Heisenberg correspondence with Niels Bohr, 1922-1962.

Niels Bohr Archive

Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark

Werner Heisenberg letters to Alfred Landé, 1921-1925.

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Potsdamer Strasse, Postfach 1107, W-1000, Berlin 30, Germany

Werner Heisenberg letters to Wolfgang Pauli and coauthored papers, 1928-1958.

Scientific Information Service.

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

Werner Heisenberg papers.

Werner Heisenberg Institut

Max-Planck-Instut für Physik und Astrophysik

80805 Munich, Germany

Werner Heisenberg response to article, Deutsche und Judische Physik, in Volkischer Beobachter, 1936.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Wolfgang Pauli correspondence and manuscripts [microform], 1954-1958.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Wolfgang Pauli letters from Werner Heisenberg [microform], 1928-1950.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Subject

Aage Petersen collection of reprints and manuscripts, 1922-1976.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Alfred Landé autograph collection, 1919-1973.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Alfred Landé incoming letters [microform], 1915-1927.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Alfred Landé papers, 1915-1970.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

An evening with Hans Bethe: the German atomic bomb project [videorecording]/ produced at Cornell University, Dept. of Physics by Eric L. Gasieiger; director, Mike E. Allmendinger.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Andrew Sessler and Stephen Libby biographical memoir on Edward Teller, 2007.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Archive for the History of Quantum Physics, 1898-1950 (bulk).

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

Arnold Sommerfeld papers [microform], 1896-1950.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Bruno Touschek papers, 1947-1978.

Departimento di Fisica

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy

Carl Eckart papers, 1921-1973 (bulk 1935-1970).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

Christian Møller papers, 1928-1980.

Niels Bohr Archive

Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conversation with Alan Herries Wilson [sound recording], 1974 November 9.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Conversations with David Inglis, [videorecording] Feb.-May 1989.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Copernicus Symposium [sound recording], 1973 April 23, 24.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Copies of papers from elsewhere not directly related to Niels Bohr, 1920-

Niels Bohr Archive

Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark

Creating Copenhagen [videorecording]/ produced by The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project, 2000, March 27.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Dirac, Heisenberg, and the University of Hawaii: reminiscences of Heisenberg's and Dirac's 1929 visit to University of Hawaii, 1974.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Ebbe Rasmussen papers, 1928-1952.

Niels Bohr Archive

Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen, Denmark

Edwin A. Uehling papers, 1925-1984.

University Archives

University of Washington

Mailstop #0-10. Seattle, WA 98195, USA

Elizabeth P. Korn sketches, 1928-1940s.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Faust, eine Historie, 1932.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Four sketches of Arnold Sommerfeld presented at the International Symposium on the Physics of the One- and Two-electron Atoms, 1968.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

From a life of physics [motion picture] / produced by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy).

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

German reports on atomic energy [microform], 1938-1945.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

H. B. G. Casimir papers, 1929-2000.

Rijksarchief in Noord-Holland

Kleine Houtweg 18, Haarlem, Netherlands

Hans Eduard Suess papers, 1875-1989.

Mandeville Special Collections Library

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

Hans Geiger correspondence.

Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften

Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Hendrik Kramers papers [microform], 1915-1952.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Henry Margenau papers, 1927-1990.

Manuscript and Archives Department

Yale University Library

Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Herbert L. Mette physics textbooks and studienbuch, 1913-1951.

Special Collection Library

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

James D. Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

Hermann Weyl manuscripts and correspondence, 1909-1955.

Handschriftenabteilung

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Zurich, Switzerland

Igor E. Tamm papers, 1921-1971.

In private hands

contact Tamm family

Moscow

International congress for nuclear physics, quantum electrodynamics and cosmic radiation [motion picture]/ photographed by Heinrich Medicus.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

International Congress for Physics [motion picture]/ photographed by Heinrich Medicus.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Interview with Heisenberg conducted by Walter Sullivan about the social environment for science in Germany [sound recording], undated.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Interview with Rudolph Peierls and Eugene Wigner [videorecording], 1984.

Niels Bohr Library & Archives

American Institute of Physics

One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA

Ivar Waller papers, circa 1912-1989.

Centrum för Vetenskapshistoria

Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademien

Stockholm, Sweden

Johann Weyssenhoff papers, 1919-1972.

Archiwum

Polska Akademia Nauk. Oddzialw Krakowie

Crakow, Poland

John A. Wheeler papers, 1880-2008.

Library

American Philosophical Society

105 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA

John D. Kraus papers, 1936-1941.

Bentley Historical Library

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2113, USA

John Von Neumann papers, 1912-1996 (bulk 1935-1957).

Manuscript Division

Library of Congress

James Madison Memorial Building, First Street and Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20540, USA

Karl Popper papers, 1928-1995.

Published Resources

Author

Across the frontiers. Translated from the German by Peter Heath.

Cosmic radiation: fifteen lectures/ edited by W. Heisenberg, translated by T.H. Johnson.

Der Teil und das Ganze; Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik.

Deutsche und Jüdische Physik/ Werner Heisenberg; herausgegeben von Helmut Rechenberg.

Die Physik der Atomkerne; acht Vorträge, gehalten auf Veranlassung des Verbandes deutscher Elektrotechniker, ausgearbeitet unter Mitwirkung von Frau Jörges von Wilhelm Westphal.

Die physikalischen prinzipien der quantentheorie/ von dr. W. Heisenberg ... mit 22 abbildungen im text.

Einführung in die einheitliche Feldtheorie der Elementarteilchen/ von Werner Heisenberg.

Einführung in die Theorie der Elementarteilchen: Vorlesung/ W. Heisenberg. Ausgearb. von H. Rechenberg u. K. Lagally.

Encounters with Einstein: and other essays on people, places, and particles/ Werner Heisenberg.

Gesammelte Werke= Collected works/ Werner Heisenberg; edited by W. Blum, H.-P. Dürr, and H. Rechenberg.

Goettinger Nachrichten [facetiae], 1932.

Kosmische strahlung: vorträge gehalten im Max-Planck Institut, Berlin-Dahlem/ von E. Bagge, F. Bopp, S. Flügge [u. a.] ... hrsg. von Werner Heisenberg; mit 37 abbildungen.

Les principes physiques de la théorie des quanta/ tr. de l'Allemand par B. Champion et E. Hochard; préface de Louis de Broglie.

Liebe Eltern!: Briefe aus kritischer Zeit 1918 bis 1945/ Werner Heisenberg; Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg (Hrsg.).

Mutamenti nelle basi della scienza.

Nuclear physics / by W. Heisenberg.

On modern physics [by] Werner Heisenberg [and others. English translation by M. Goodman and J.W. Binns].

Philosophic problems of nuclear science/ [translated by] F.C. Hayes.

Physics and beyond: encounters and conversations/ Werner Heisenberg; translated from the German by Arnold J. Pomerans.

Physics and philosophy; the revolution in modern science.

Schritte über Grezen: Gesammelte Reden und Aufsätze/ Werner Heisenberg.

The physical principles of the quantum theory/ by Werner Heisenberg; translated into English by Carl Eckart and Frank C. Hoyt.

The physicist's conception of nature. Translated from the German by Arnold J. Pomerans.

Theorie der Neutronen: Vorlesung, gehalten im Winter 1950/51 / von W. Heisenberg; ausgearbeitet von K. Wildermuth.

Theorie des Atomkerns/ von W. Heisenberg; Ausgearbeitet von W. Macke.

Tradition in der Wissenschaft: Reden und Aufsätze/ Werner Heisenberg.

Two lectures.

Wandlungen in den Grundlagen der Naturwissenschaft; sechs Vorträge von Werner Heisenberg.

Werner Heisenberg: Physiker und Philosoph: Verhandlung der Konferenz "Werner Heisenberg als Physiker und Philosoph in Leipzig" vom 9. bis 12. Dezember 1991 an der Universität Leipzig/ herausgegeben von Bodo Geyer, Helge Herwig, und Helmut Rechenberg.

Zur Begründung der Matrizenmechanik.

Subject

100 years Werner Heisenberg : works and impact / edited by D. Papenfuss, D. Lüst, W.P. Schleich.

Copenhagen / Michael Frayn.

Das politische Leben eines Unpolitischen: Erinnerungen an Werner Heisenberg/ Elisabeth Heisenberg.

Die Jahrhundertwissenschaft: Werner Heisenberg u. d. Physik seiner Zeit/ Armin Hermann.

Encyclopaedia Britannica - Werner Heisenberg.

Epistemology and probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrödinger and the nature of quantum-theoretical thinking/ Arkady Plotnitsky.

Epokha i lichnost fiziki: ocherki i vospominaniia/ E.L. Feinberg.

Heisenberg and the interpretation of quantum mechanics : the physicist as philosopher / Kristian Camilleri.

Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project : a study in German culture / Paul Lawrence Rose.

Heisenberg in the atomic age: science and the public sphere/ Cathryn Carson.

Heisenberg, Hitler und die Bombe: Gespräche mit Zeitzeugen/ Michael Schaaf.

Heisenberg's war : the secret history of the German bomb / Thomas Powers.

Inner exile: recollections of a life with Werner Heisenberg/ Elisabeth Heisenberg; translated by S. Cappellari and C. Morris; with an introduction by Victor Weisskopf.

Kopenhagen: Stück in zwei Akten/ Michael Frayn; deutsch von Inge Greiffenhagen und Bettina von Leoprechting; mit einem Nachwort des Autors.

Kopenhagen: Wissenschaftshistoriker auf der Buhne/ Matthias Dorries [Hrsg.]; [Nachwort zur Michael Frayn].

Michael Frayn's Copenhagen in debate: historical essays and documents on the 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg/ editied by Matthias Dörries.

My dear Li : correspondence 1937-1946 / Werner and Elisabeth Heisenberg ; edited by Anna Maria Hirsch-Heisenberg and translated by Irene Heisenberg.

Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg.

Particle physics and cultural politics : Werner Heisenberg and the shaping of a role for the physicist in postwar West Germay / a thesis presented by Cathryn Leigh Carson.

Quantum mechanics and objectivity; a study of the physical philosophy of Werner Heisenberg, by Patrick A. Heelan.

Serving the Reich: the struggle for the soul of physics under Hitler/ Philip Ball.

The Uncertainty principle and foundations of quantum mechanics: a fifty years' survey/ edited by William C. Price, Seymour S. Chissick.

Uncertainty: the life and science of Werner Heisenberg/ David C. Cassidy.

Werner Heisenberg / von Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker u. Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.

Werner Heisenberg AIP History Web exhibit.

Werner Heisenberg and the crisis in quantum theory, 1920-1925/ by David Charles Cassidy.

Werner Heisenberg in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten/ dargest. von Armin Hermann; [der Anh. besorgte d. Autor].

Werner Heisenberg Nobel Prize biography.

Werner Heisenberg Physics Today obituary.

Werner Heisenberg und die Physik unserer Zeit/ Beiträge von G. Beck [et al.].

Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976/ by Armin Hermann; [trans. by Timothy Nevill].

Werner Heisenberg: Gutachten- und Prüfungsprotokolle für Promotionen und Habilitationen (1929-1942)/ herausgegeben von Helmut Rechenberg und Gerald Wiemers.

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