| Werner Karl
Heisenberg was born in December 1901, in Wurzburg, Bavaria. His father, Dr. August
Heisenberg was a professor at the University of Munich. It was only natural that the
son of a wise man become a wise man himself. As and elementary student, Werner
excelled past his classmates. At the age of nine he entered a prep school that would
prepare him for a future as a doctor or maybe a physicist. While at the prep school,
Werner excelled past his math teacher. It has been said the Werner's math teacher
would hand him difficult math problems and challenged Warner to solve them. Werner
solved each problem and they progressively got harder, harder until the point that Werner
teacher was unable to solve the problems. Werner continued to solve each one.
One of the professors stated this about Werner "he
makes use of infinitesimal calculus and proves that he has already gone far beyond the
goal of middle school mathematics."
In 1920 he graduated top of his prep school
class and moved on to the University of Munich. Heisenberg entered the University
with intentions of studying mathematics. After an entrance interview with a physics
professor, he chose to pursue an education in theoretical physics. Heisenberg
excelled in this new field, in fact he excelled to feats never before accomplished.
Werner earned his doctrate degree in 1923, only three years after he entered the
University. Over the next few years Werner worked on some of his most mentionalbe
accomplishments, quantum mechanics and the begaining of the famous Heisenberg's
uncertainty priciple.
In 1927 Werner Heisenberg coined the famous
phrase:
"The more precisely the position is
determined, the less precisely the momentum is know in this instant, and vice versa."
This statement tells us that the more positive
we are about the location of a moving object in a space, the less accurately we know about
the speed of the object. It can be said that the product of two widths is always
going to be greater than a minimum value which is about the size of the Planck's constant.
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