| Werner Heisenberg  AKA Werner Karl Heisenberg
Born: 5-Dec-1901
Birthplace: Würzburg, Germany
Died: 1-Feb-1976
Location of death: Munich, Germany
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Lutheran
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle An organizer of Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN).
Father: Dr. August Heisenberg
Mother: Annie Wecklein
Wife: Elisabeth Schumacher (m. 1937, seven children)
High School: Maximilian School, Munich, Germany
University: University of Munich
University: PhD, University of Munich (1923)
Scholar: University of Göttingen (1924)
Professor: University of Copenhagen (1926-27)
Professor: University of Leipzig (1927-41)
Professor: University of Berlin (1941)
Scholar: Gifford Lectures, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1955-56)
Professor: University of Munich (1958)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1932
Matteucci Medal 1929
CERN
Royal Society Fellow
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Taken Prisoner of War
Asteroid Namesake 13149 Heisenberg
Is the subject of books:
Uncertainty: the Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg, 1992, BY: David C. Cassidy
Author of books:
Physics and Philosophy (1962, nonfiction)
Physics and Beyond (1971, nonfiction)
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