S Lakshmibala is a theoretical physicist at the Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Her current research interests are in dynamical systems and quantum information.

Werner Heisenberg was one of the key players in the development of quantum mechanics. Besides enunciating the famous Uncertainty Principle, he was also the principal architect of Matrix Mechanics, one of the two standard formulations of quantum mechanics.

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Address for Correspondence
S Lakshmibala
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai 600 036 India.
Email:slbala@physics.iitm.ac.in