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Werner Karl Heisenberg:
Father of Quantum Mechanics
Do electrons spiral and crash into the nucleus of an atom? ... This new study of matter and radiation at the atomic level, or quantum mechanics, was founded by Werner Karl Heisenberg.
Werner Heisenberg was born on December 5, 1901, in Würzburg, Germany, to August Heisenberg, a Privatdozent at the University of Würzburg, and Anna Wecklein. August and Anna had another son, Erwin, in March 1900, who was nearly two years older than Werner. The Heisenberg family was well cultured and of high social stature. In the home, as far as religion, the Heisenberg children were raised to follow Christian ethics, but they were taught of their parents’ religious disbeliefs. ... Also, Werner attended a primary school in Würzburg starting in September 1906 until June 1910, when he and his family moved to Munich. ... Heisenberg’s best subjects in school were mathematics, physics, and religion; but he was a superior student in every focus. Heisenberg also had a lot of independent study time, which was thought to assist his education, because of World War I. ...
During the war, Heisenberg worked on farms as voluntary labor. ... These were hard times for Heisenberg, but times that he had to push through. Then, after the war ended in 1918, Heisenberg took part in the military suppression of the Bavarian Soviet as the situation in Germany became more unstable (Heisenberg - a brief chronology; O’Connor & Robertson). Finally, with all of this hard work was behind him, Werner could, once again, focus on his schooling.
In 1920, at the age of nineteen, Heisenberg took the Abitur examination, earning him the right to be only one of two pupils from his school to be entered into a competition to win a scholarship from the Maximilianeum Foundation.
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