| Authorised form of name | Heisenberg; Werner Karl (1901 - 1976) |
| Dates | 1901 - 1976 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Wurzberg, Germany |
| Date of birth | 05/12/1901 |
| Place of death | Munich, Germany |
| Date of death | 01/02/1976 |
| Research field | Quantum theory |
| Nuclear physics |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1932 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 28/04/1955 |
| Age at election | 53 |
| Sources | Sources:
DSB vol 17 pp 394-403
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1977 vol 23 pp 213-251, plate, by Sir Nevill Mott and Sir Rudolph Peierls
References:
Sir Charles Frank 'Operation Epsilon: the Farm Hall Transcripts' Bristol andf Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1993
American copy of the Farm Hall Transcipts, originally sent to General Leslie R Groves, head of the Manhattan Project, are now in National Archives II, College Park, Maryland, in Record Group 77, Manhattan Engineer District.
Sir Charles Frank, 'An Uncertain Life', review of David C Cassidy, Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg in NR 1994 vol 48 pp 147-151
Gillian Beer, 'Translation or Transformation? The Relations of Literature and Science' in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 81-99
J B Adams, 'Four Generations of Nuclear Physicists' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 75-94
G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262 |
| Royal Society code | NA7054 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1955/27 | Heisenberg, Werner Karl: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| HWT/20/16 | Correspondence with Department of Education and Science, Ford Foundation, European Scientists and academies regarding RSEP, Bad Godesberg meeting and papers regarding RSEP Fellowships Subcommittee meeting | March 1967 |
| PB/1/33/1/4 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| PB/9/1/50 | Correspondence with Werner Heisenberg | 1957-1958 |
| PB/2/7/6/3 | Letter from Werner Heisenberg | 9 December 1947 |
| IM/002025 | Heisenberg, Werner | 1994 |
| RR/71/142 | Letter from David Christie Martin, to John Edward Lennard-Jones, regarding a paper 'On the theory of statistical and isotropic turbulence' by Werner Karl Heisenberg | 17 June 1948 |