Brittany Moletz & Neely Regan Werner Heisenberg Brittany Moletz & Neely Regan

Background Information Werner Karl Heisenberg 5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976 A German theoretical physicist at Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany Won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his addition to the creation of Quantum Mechanics with the application of which has led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen - which is the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms. Allotropes are different structural modifications of an element.

Quantum Mechanics Heisenberg built off of Niels Bohr’s theory of the atom. In 1925, Heisenberg formulated a quantum mechanics based on so called matrixes - something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form

Uncertainty Principle The position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrarily high precision. There is a minimum for the product of the uncertainties of these two measurements. There is likewise a minimum for the product of the uncertainties of the energy and time.

Uncertainty Principle (cont.) “The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.” --Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927

Example http://youtu.be/a8FTr2qMutA stop @ 2:55

References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1932/heisenberg-facts.html Youtube.com