The prize was reserved and awarded in 1933 "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen"

Werner Heisenberg

Germany
born 1901, died 1976
CA - Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
AA - University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark & University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
WA - University of Copenhagen & University of Gottingen
Additional Information

*Explanation of CA, AA & WA*

Additional Information:

• Nobel e-Museum Prize in Physics 1932
• Werner Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle (Exhaustive resource with extensive links including audio and video)
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Uncertainty Principle
• "The Uncertainty Principle" from A Brief History of Time, Stephen W. Hawking, April 1988

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