- Born
- December 5, 1901
- Died
- February 1, 1976 (aged 74)
- Known as
- theoretical physicist, mountaineer, non-fiction writer, university teacher, mathematician, physicist
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 German nuclear program during World War II.
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