Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
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| Subject | Werner Heisenberg |
| Category | German physicist (1901–1976) |
| Reading time | 1 min · Advanced |
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