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Werner Karl Heisenberg
Full Name of the recipient | Werner Karl Heisenberg |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1932 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany |
Place of Birth | Würzburg, Germany DEU |
Date of Birth | 5 December 1901 |
Age at the time of Award | 30 years |
Place of Death | Munich, West Germany DEU |
Date of Death | 1 February 1976 |