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Heisenberg

in reference to German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), pioneer of quantum mechanics. His "uncertainty principle" (deduced in 1927) is that an electron may have a determinate position, or a determinate velocity, but not both.

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Heisenberg

Heisenberg is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), renowned German physicist and a key contributor to quantum mechanics
  • Jochen Heisenberg (born 1939), German physicist, son of Werner Heisenberg
  • Martin Heisenberg (born 1940), German neurobiologist and geneticist, son of Werner Heisenberg
  • Benjamin Heisenberg (born 1974), German film director and screenwriter, son of Martin Heisenberg

Fictional characters:

  • Walter White (Breaking Bad), the lead character on AMC's Breaking Bad, who adopted the name as his clandestine alias in tribute to Werner Heisenberg

Usage examples of "heisenberg".

Ishizawa did not know, and never lived to learn, that his failed microcircuit itself resulted from just such a Heisenberg cascade.

She thought you would have to be taken back to a starbase under medical stasis, but the Heisenberg proved to have exceptional medical facilities.

He wished he could tell her about the Heisenberg and its advanced medical facilities and its EMH with an attitude.

This theme is specifically addressed in the well-known Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

At almost the same time the German physicist Werner Heisenberg came up with a competing theory called matrix mechanics.

In this speech Heisenberg draws a picture of the progress of science which differs significantly from the one generally known.

Only this much may be pointed out immediately, that Goethe - if not in the scientific then indeed in the poetical part of his writings - did fulfil what Heisenberg rightly feels to have been his true task.

Originally this conception forced itself upon Heisenberg as a result of experimental research.

For a time he pondered the Heisenberg uncertainty factor, but discarded it as a new idea came to him.

Comes back babbling about impossibility of getting results due to Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Holenbachian foramina, of the Heisenberg units there was no mention, was there?

Photon and particle emissions of a hypermassive object, resulting from Heisenberg tunneling across the event horizon.

Heisenberg could, of course, have said the same of the science of acoustics in regard to one born deaf.

Heisenberg, when we came back to Chal, the first thing James did was have that computer link installed.

The Heisenberg Principle clearly demonstrates the calculability of the uncertainties to which you so glibly allude.