Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
Heisenberg in 1933
Heisenberg in 1924
Elisabeth Heisenberg (left) conversing with Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, 1937
Replica of the German experimental nuclear reactor captured and dismantled at Haigerloch
Niels Bohr
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Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in
Werner Heisenberg
…doctorate in 1923 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under Sommerfeld. In June 1922, Sommerfeld took Heisenberg to Göttingen to attend the Bohr Festival, because Sommerfeld had a sincere interest in his students and knew of Heisenberg's interest in Niels Bohr's theories on atomic physics. At the event…
Bohr in 1922
Niels Bohr with his mother, 1902
Bohr as a young man, c. 1910.
The Niels Bohr Institute, part of the University of Copenhagen.