The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Monograph
By: Werner Heisenberg
Date: July 1930
Source: Heisenberg, Werner. The Physical Principles of The Quantum Theory. Carl Eckart and Frank C. Hoyt, trans. Chicago: Dover Publications, 1930, 1–4.
About the Author: Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) was born in Wurzburg, Germany. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Munich in 1923, then assisted physicist Max Born at the University of Göttingen, and in 1924 worked with Niels Bohr at the University of Copenhagen. Heisenberg's publication of his theory of quantum mechanics in 1925 at the age of 23 won him the Nobel Prize in 1932. In 1941 he became Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, as well as Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin. He was taken prisoner at the end of World War II and removed to England, but later returned as head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics. The...
[The entire page is 2244 words long]
1930's Science and Technology Primary Sources
The 1930's: Primary Sources
