Werner Karl Heisenberg was born in Wurzburg, Germany, on December 5, 1901 and died in Munich, Germany, February 1, 1976 at the age of 76 years, a sub-atomic theorist from Germany, as well as a Nobel Prize winner in Physics 1932.
Initial Year
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Werner Heisenburg's high school year was interrupted by World War I, when Werner was forced to leave school to help pick up the harvest precisely in Bayem country. After that, Werner returned to Munich after the war, and Werner volunteered to be a messenger for the democratic socialist forces who fought and drove out communist rule that had taken Bayern control.
Werner was involved in a group of youths who tried to rebuild German society from World War I, including the "New Scouts" who expected German life with experience directly to nature, romantic poetry, music and thought.
Careers
Werner Heisenberg was one of the greatest contributors of physics that took place in the 20th century. In 1920, Werner entered the University of Munich to begin studying mathematics. However, the professor of mathematics did not allow Werner in advanced seminars, so Werner decided to quit and then move on to physics.
Furthermore, Werner took an interest in theoretical physics and met with so many scientists with his work that will dominate in the next decade, including Niels Henrik David Borh, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Max Born and Enrico Fermi. Meanwhile, Werner's main concern was to work out the problem in Bohr-Rutherford's atomic model.
Werner just received his Ph.D. in 1923 and almost failed to neglect his laboratory work. Werner's adviser argued over the title. Werner eventually became a professor at the University of Gottingen at the age of 22 years.
Due to suffering from some seasonal allergies, Werner then left Bayern to the island of Heligoland. There, Werner had plenty of time to think and solve many problems about the atomic model. He tried to realize the restrictions of the visual model and employed hard work with experimental data along with mathematical results. To do so, he applied a mathematical system in atomic physics, called matrix mechanics.
This is the turning point of physics. Many people who are in this field do not like it because of the unavailability of the physics model to connect it. Furthermore, Erwin Schrodinger began to emerge with wave mechanics about 1 year later. Discomfort with the Heisenberg system rises on the mechanics of the wave. The discrepancy between theories is solved at the time Schrodinger proves if indeed everything is identical.
Right in 1926, Heisenberg followed Bohr to the Theoretical Physics Institute in Copenhagen. This became one of the most productive times in Heisenberg's life. Furthermore, in 1927, Werner considered the basic quantum properties present in electrons. Werner was able to manifest if the action of measuring the nature of the electron by firing it using gamma rays would change the behavior of the electrons.
Still in 1927, Werner returned to Germany and became the youngest professor in Germany. During the political turmoil in Germany and in World War II, Heisenberg's life became very difficult. This was with the mass exodus of German scientists in 1930, but Heisenberg became a high-level scientist by deciding to remain in Germany. Together with Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, Werner was able to show his hope of protecting the German scientific tradition and institutions.
The Nazi Atomic Bomb Project
Despite his problems with the Nazi government, Heisenberg was determined to stay and settle in Germany, even loyal to the Nazis. After the Nuclear fission was discovered in Germany exactly in 1939, Heisenberg then entered the nuclear power program under the leadership of Professor Walther Bothe.
Heisenberg's task is to create a fission reaction that can survive and create a plutonium propellant reactor in Hechinegen.
Ultimately, this is where controversy ensues and begins to emerge. Heisenberg is considered wrong in calculating the critical mass of uranium needed by an atomic bomb. This mistake, which is blamed as one of the culprits of the German atom bomb project.
Heisenberg himself also actually talked about the atomic bomb-making program along with Niels Bohr. However, the talks they have made are never completed because Bohr went to the United States after escaping from German police custody.
Here then comes a new speculation if Heisenberg is someone who knows a lot about atomic theory. However, he deliberately tried to slow down and thwart the German nubah project for moral reasons. While idu, the weaponry minister Albert Speer also supported the move, which has resulted in friction in the Nazi body.
After the War
At the end of the war, Heisenberg was captured by the Allies and held in England for about 6 months. Heisenberg was released and returned to Germany when he re-established the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, but was renamed by Heisenberg with the Max Planck Institute.
Heisenberg gave lectures in various countries, following the events of World War II, including in England, the United States and also in Scotland, before finally deciding to move to Munich in order to work at the Max Planck Institute for Physics.
Heisenberg holds many administrative positions in West Germany and represents his country in the framework of international combat. Heisenberg rested in 1970 and eventually died in 1976, leaving a 39-year-old wife with seven children.
