Heisenberg, Werner (1901-1976) German theoretical physicist. Famous for the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics , widely received as asserting a radically irreducible conception of nature (1927). In brief, a particle’s

indeterminism in reality. Werner Heisenberg argued this way: the chance aspects of quantum phenomena are due to an ontological property, indeterminism, which holds at the quantum level in the world. Albert Einstein and later David Bohm also

sub-atomic physics fell to Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Although they were working independently, their approaches were sufficiently similar to be formally merged into quantum mechanics . This new theory constituted a

of the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg . Their relationship and the related strands of their thought has been dramatised by the playwright Michael Frayn in his Copenhagen . Related Topics: Physics

for quantum mechanics, Werner Heisenberg announced the uncertainty principle (and an alternative, but mathematically, equivalent formulation to that of Schrödinger), Wolfgang Pauli discovered the exclusion principle; by the end of the