Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr.
| Number | B202 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Description | Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr in the canteen of the University of Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics. (UITF - Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik). |
| Remarks | Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901 - 1976) was a German physicist and philosopher who discovered (1925) a way
to formulate quantum mechanics in terms of matrices. For that discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1932. In 1927 he published his uncertainty principle, upon which he built his philosophy and for which he is best known. In 1923 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Munich and then became Assistant to Max Born at the University of Göttingen. In 1926 he was appointed Lecturer in Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen under Niels Bohr and in 1927 he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig. In 1941 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Berlin and Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics there. He led the “Uranverein” or “Uranium Club” working on the German atomic bomb project. At the end of the Second World War he, and other German physicists, were taken prisoner by American troops and sent to England, but in 1946 he returned to Germany and reorganized, with his colleagues, the Institute for Physics at Göttingen. This Institute was, in 1948, renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics. During 1955 Heisenberg was occupied with preparations for the removal of the Max Planck Institute for Physics to Munich. Still Director of this Institute, he went with it to Munich and in 1958 he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Munich. From 1965 the University of Copenhagen Institute for Theoretical Physics. (UITF - Universitetets Institut for Teoretisk Fysik) was renamed the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI). OLDb033 |
| Year | 1936 |
| Note on the dating | The picture is taken at the 1936 Copenhagen Conference. |
| Photographer | Ukendt |
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| Archive | Niels Bohr Archive |
