Werner Karl Heisenberg

Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901–76) and Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) independently, and in different ways, laid the theoretical foundations of the new quantum mechanics, which, though violating classical notions of causality, successfully predicts the behavior of atomic particles.

4. Science 2001

"The remarkable generation of scientists who came to join my father in his work became for us children Uncle Klein, Uncle Nishina, Uncle Heisenberg, Uncle Pauli," he wrote in a reference to Oscar Klein of Sweden, Japanese physicist Yoshio Nishina, Werner Karl Heisenberg of Germany and Wolfgang Pauli of Austria.

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