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Advanced Search About Resonance Editorial Board Guidelines Subscribe Current Issue August 2004 (Contents) Back Issues	Article-in-a-Box Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) His Life and Science Werner Heisenberg was one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. He was the first to consistently formulate quantum mechanics in 1925. His version used matrices to represent physical observables and is thus known as “Matrix Mechanics”. A little later, quantum mechanics was discovered in another formulation, now known as Wave Mechanics, by Erwin Schrödinger. Soon, the equivalence between the two formulations, despite their being seemingly very different from each other, was shown by Eckart and by Schrödinger. Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg on December 5, 1901 to August Heisenberg, a Professor of Greek Philology. His mother Annie née Wecklein was the daughter of a headmaster in Maximilian Gymnasium at Munich, where he had his early education. He became the leader of a group of boys, associated with a “German Youth Movement” from the military unit of his school. This movement was somewhat right wing and had anti-modernist romantic leanings. His personality was moulded by this participation. Read full article (45 Kb) Address for Correspondence Virendra Singh Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Homi Bhabha Road, Mumbai 400 005, India. Email: vsingh@theory.tifr.res.in

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