About this book

Heisenberg's 1929 Chicago lectures: the uncertainty principle explained by its discoverer.

The author

Werner Heisenberg

1901–1976 · German theoretical physicist and nobel prize winner

Nobel laureate
Max Planck Medal
Worked at Humboldt University of Berlin
Worked at Max Planck Society

Profession: Physicist
Worked at: Max Planck Society, Humboldt University of Berlin, Göttingen, Leipzig
Studied at: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Studied under: Arnold Sommerfeld
Prizes: Nobel Prize in Physics (1932), Max Planck Medal (1933), Matteucci Medal (1929), Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1957), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1955), Niels Bohr International Gold Medal (1970), Sigmund Freud Prize (1970), Romano Guardini award (1973), Pour le Mérite

Worked out matrix mechanics at 23 on the island of Heligoland.

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Reading order

Prerequisite: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume III (Feynman)

In print

Yes · Dover paperback

Which edition

From 1930, so it predates quantum field theory and most of modern quantum physics. Read it for how the founders thought, not as a current course. The Dover reprint is the usual edition.

Recommended: Dover

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Editions

3 editions

First published 1930

Earliest edition listed: 1930 · Dover Publications

1930 · Dover Publications
2013 · Dover Publications · ISBN 9780486318417
2013 · Dover Publications · ISBN 9781306327015

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Subjects

Physics