Werner Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics, and a principal scientist in the Nazi nuclear weapons program during World War II. He published his Umdeutung paper in 1925, a major reinterpretation of old quantum theory. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan, during the same year, his matrix formulation of quantum mechanics was substantially elaborated. He is known for the uncertainty principle, which he published in 1927. Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics".

5 December 1901

Born on the same birth date (5 December 1901): Milton H. Erickson • The Walt Disney Company

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Don Robertson (songwriter) • Francesco Geminiani • Hanif Kureishi • Harry Nelson Pillsbury • James Hinchcliffe • Kyle Long • Lauren London • LeGarrette Blount • Mikelangelo Loconte • Neil Druckmann • Nikolai Uglanov • Pablo Morales • Peter Pohl • Ramón Ramírez (footballer) • Sachiko Kokubu • W. D. Amaradeva • Xavier Garbajosa • Yury Vlasov • Zbigniew Oleśnicki (cardinal)

Born in the same month (December 1901): Andre Kostelanetz • Eliot Porter • Elmar Muuk • Glenn Hartranft • Harald Kaarmann • Henri Cochet • Ilona Fehér • Jean Mermoz • Karl-August Fagerholm • Marlene Dietrich • Milton H. Erickson • Nikos Ploumpidis • Olev Roomet • Oliver La Farge • Robert J. Van de Graaff • The Walt Disney Company