Werner Heisenberg: Difference between revisions

| workplaces  = [[University of Göttingen]] <br />[[University of Copenhagen]] <br />[[University of Leipzig]] <br />[[University of Berlin]] <br />[[University of Munich]]

| academic_advisors = [[Niels Bohr]] <br />[[Max Born]]

|doctoral_students  = [[Felix Bloch]] <br />[[Edward Teller]] <br />[[Rudolph E. Peierls]] <br />[[Reinhard Oehme]] <br />[[Friedwardt Winterberg]] <br />[[Peter Mittelstaedt]] <br />[[Şerban Ţiţeica]] <br />[[Ivan Supek]] <br />[[Erich Bagge]] <br />[[Hermann Arthur Jahn]] <br />[[Raziuddin Siddiqui]] <br />[[Heimo Dolch]] <br />[[Hans Heinrich Euler]] <br />[[Edwin Gora]] <br />[[Bernhard Kockel]] <br />[[Arnold Siegert]] <br />[[Wang Foh-san]]

| notable_students  = [[William Vermillion Houston]] <br />[[Guido Beck]] <br />[[Ugo Fano]]

| known_for  = [[Uncertainty Principle]] <br />[[Heisenberg's microscope]] <br />[[Matrix mechanics]] <br />[[Kramers-Heisenberg formula]] <br />[[Heisenberg group]] <br />[[Isospin]] <br />[[Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian]]

| influenced  = [[Robert Döpel]]<br />[[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]]

| awards      = {{nowrap|[[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1932)}} <br />[[Max Planck Medal]] (1933)

Heisenberg's paper on the anomalous [[Zeeman effect]]<ref>W. Heisenberg ''Über eine Abänderung der formalin Regeln der Quantentheorie beim Problem der anomalen Zeeman-Effekte'', ''Z. Phys.'' Volume 26, 291–307 (1924), as cited in Mott and Peierls, 1977, 243.</ref> was accepted as his ''Habilitationsschrift'' ([[Habilitation]] thesis) under [[Max Born]] at Göttingen.<ref>Mott and Peierls, 1977, 219.</ref>

| year = 2005|publisher=Gemeinschaft Katholischer Männer und Frauen im Bund Neudeutschland-ND|url=http://www.kmf-net.de/files/muenchen/Maerz2005.pdf|format=}} </ref> In August 1923 Robert Honsell and Heisenberg organized a trip (''Großfahrt'') to Finland with a Scout group of this association from Munich.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Helmut Raum

Born had learned [[matrix theory|matrix algebra]] from Rosanes, as already noted, but Born had also learned Hilbert's theory of [[integral equation]]s and [[quadratic form]]s for an [[Infinity|infinite number]] of variables as was apparent from a citation by Born of Hilbert's work ''Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Theorie der Linearen Integralgleichungen'' published in 1912.<ref>[[Bartel Leendert van der Waerden|van der Waerden]], 1968, p. 51.</ref><ref>The citation by Born was in Born and Jordan's paper, the second paper in the trilogy which launched the matrix mechanics formulation. See van der Waerden, 1968, p. 351.</ref> Jordan, too was well equipped for the task. For a number of years, he had been an assistant to [[Richard Courant]] at Göttingen in the preparation of Courant and [[David Hilbert]]'s book ''Methoden der mathematischen Physik I'', which was published in 1924.<ref>Constance Reid ''Courant'' (Springer, 1996) p. 93.</ref> This book, fortuitously, contained a great many of the mathematical tools necessary for the continued development of quantum mechanics. In 1926, [[John von Neumann]] became assistant to [[David Hilbert]], and he [[Neologism|coined the term]] [[Hilbert space]] to describe the algebra and analysis which were used in the development of quantum mechanics.<ref>John von Neumann ''Allgemeine Eigenwerttheorie Hermitescher Funktionaloperatoren'', ''Mathematische Annalen'' '''102''' 49–131 (1929)</ref><ref>When von Neumann left Göttingen in 1932, his book on the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, based on Hilbert's mathematics, was published under the title ''Mathematische Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik''. See: [[Norman Macrae]], ''John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterrence, and Much More'' (Reprinted by the [[American Mathematical Society]], 1999) and [[Constance Reid]], ''Hilbert'' (Springer-Verlag, 1996) ISBN 0-387-94674-8.</ref>