Werner
Heisenberg, passed away on 1 February 1976, was a German theoretical
physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his
work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with
Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, this matrix formulation of
quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. He is known for the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. Heisenberg was awarded the
1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics".
