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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a philosopher and theoretical physicist from Germany who was born on 5 December, 1901.  He was born to a school teacher, Kaspar Earnesta August Heisenberg, in the secondary section at Wurzburg located in Germany.
The formulation of quantum mechanics made by Werner Karl Heisenberg in 1925 changed the understanding of matrices. In the year 1932, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to him for this discovery. The uncertainty principle was publicized by him in the year 1927, on which his philosophy was built. His name is also synonymous with studies on different kinds of theories related to ferromagnetism, subatomic particles, turbulent flow hydrodynamics, cosmic rays and atomic nucleus. He was instrumental in the plans made for the 1957 Munich based research reactor and the Karlsruhe based nuclear reactor in West Germany. During World War II, he was surrounded by a lot of controversies for his atomic research. He died on 1 February, 1976.