SparkNotes: Werner Heisenberg: Review Test

1. For what year did Heisenberg win the Nobel Prize?

(A) 1930

(B) 1931

(D) 1933

2. In what year did Heisenberg actually receive the Nobel Prize?

(A) 1931

(B) 1932

(D) 1934

3. What was August Heisenberg's field?

(A) Physics

(B) Mathematics

(C) Greek philology

(D) Astronomy

4. What was the alternative to matrix mechanics called?

(A) Wave mechanics

(B) Quantum mechanics

(C) Particle mechanics

(D) Auto mechanics

5. To what principle did Bohr extend the uncertainty principle?

(A) Certainty principle

(B) Correspondence principle

(C) Complementarity principle

(D) Complimentary principle

6. Which colleague recognized the matrix multiplication rules in Heisenberg's work?

(A) Rutherford

(B) Born

(C) Sommerfeld

(D) Kramers

7. On how many published papers did Heisenberg and Pauli collaborate?

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four

8. Where did Heisenberg receive his first full professorship appointment?

(A) Munich

(B) Leipzig

(C) Berlin

(D) Copenhagen

9. Whom did Heisenberg succeed as Born's assistant?

(A) Pauli

(B) Bohr

(C) Planck

(D) Schrödinger

10. What Munich professor almost failed Heisenberg because of his incompetence in experimental physics?

(A) Lenard

(B) Stark

(C) Sommerfeld

(D) Wien

11. What was Heisenberg's brother's name?

(A) Max

(B) Erwin

(C) August

(D) Albert

12. What instrument did Heisenberg play for most of his life?

(A) Flute

(B) Guitar

(C) Violin

(D) Piano

13. What was the emphasis of Heisenberg's gymnasium education placed on?

(A) Mathematics

(B) Greek and Latin

(C) Physics

(D) Technical training

14. What philosopher did Heisenberg read while working on a farm in 1918?

(A) Aristotle

(B) Plato

(C) Kant

(D) Spinoza

15. What was one of the central differences between Schrödinger's and Heisenberg's pictures of the atom?

(A) Continuity vs. discontinuity

(B) Mathematics-based vs. philosophy-based

(C) Theory-based vs. experiment-based

(D) Correct results vs. incorrect results

16. On what subject did Heisenberg write his doctoral thesis?

(A) Hydrodynamics

(B) Quantum theory

(C) Special relativity

(D) General relativity

17. In what year did Heisenberg receive the Max Planck Medal?

(A) 1932

(B) 1933

(D) 1935

18. With what level of honors did Heisenberg receive his doctorate?

(A) I

(B) II

(C) III

(D) IV

19. Whose quantum postulate did Heisenberg's Zeeman principle modify?

(A) Einstein's

(B) Planck's

(C) Sommerfeld's

(D) Bohr's

20. At what school was Heisenberg habilitated in 1924?

(A) Munich

(B) Göttingen

(C) Leipzig

(D) Berlin

21. What theory attempted to abandon the laws of energy and momentum conservation?

(A) Uncertainty principle

(B) BKS theory

(C) Pauli exclusion principle

(D) Zeeman principle

22. Which one of the following was not a coauthor of the matrix mechanics paper?

(A) Bohr

(B) Heisenberg

(C) Born

(D) Jordan

23. Who theorized the existence of a "dark point"?

(A) Born

(B) Bohr

(C) Kramers

(D) Pauli

24. Who coauthored the paper on dispersion with Heisenberg?

(A) Pauli

(B) Kramers

(C) Schrödinger

(D) Einstein

25. How old was Heisenberg when he became Germany's youngest full professor?

(A) Twenty-four

(B) Twenty-five

(C) Twenty-six

(D) Twenty-seven

26. Who was Heisenberg's experimentalist counterpart at Leipzig?

(A) Debye

(B) Sommerfeld

(C) Wien

(D) Lenard

27. Who discovered the neutron?

(A) Hahn

(B) Rutherford

(C) Chadwick

(D) Planck

28. Who intervened on Heisenberg's behalf when he came under the attack of Nazi propaganda?

(A) Hitler

(B) Lenard

(C) Stark

(D) Himmler

29. What aging scientist encouraged Heisenberg not to resign and leave Germany?

(A) Planck

(B) Einstein

(C) Born

(D) Sommerfeld

30. For what work was Heisenberg awarded the Nobel Prize?

(A) Quantum mechanics

(B) Uncertainty principle

(C) Zeeman principle

(D) Core model

31. To what directorship was Heisenberg promoted in 1942?

(A) Max Planck Institute

(B) Sommerfeld Institute

(C) Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

(D) Institute for Advanced Study

32. What was the cause of Heisenberg's death?

(A) Typhoid fever

(B) Influenza

(C) Cancer

(D) Einstein

33. The uncertainty principle asserts the impossibility of exactly measuring which two variables simultaneously?

(A) Velocity and mass

(B) Mass and position

(C) Mass and momentum

(D) Position and velocity

34. In what year did Heisenberg receive his doctorate?

(A) 1922

(B) 1923

(D) 1925

35. What was the age difference between Heisenberg and his wife?

(A) Ten years

(B) Thirteen years

(C) Sixteen years

(D) Twenty years

36. How many children did Heisenberg have?

(A) One

(B) Three

(C) Five

(D) Seven

37. Whom did Heisenberg NOT serve as assistant?

(A) Bohr

(B) Born

(C) Pauli

(D) Sommerfeld

38. Why did Heisenberg relocate to Munich in 1910?

(A) His father was appointed to a new chair there

(B) Conditions in his hometown were becoming unbearable

(C) His family wanted him to attend school there

(D) His father lost his job in their hometown

39. What influential position did Heisenberg's maternal grandfather hold?

(A) Rector of the Maximilians-Gymnasium

(B) Chair of the Greek philology department at Munich

(C) Chair of the Munich faculty committee

(D) Chancellor of Germany

40. What is the highest rank August Heisenberg attained?

(A) Major

(B) Lieutenant

(C) General

(D) Captain

41. What was Heisenberg's youth movement group known as?

(A) Werner's Kids

(B) Gruppe Heisenberg

(C) Youth for Social Justice

(D) Bavarian Youth Society

42. Who was Robert Honsell?

(A) An early childhood friend

(B) A science teacher at the Maximilians-Gymnasium

(C) A youth movement companion well versed in philosophy

(D) A scientific nemesis at Munich

43. What other career did Heisenberg seriously consider?

(A) Music

(B) Law

(C) Athletics

(D) Philosophy

44. What was Heisenberg intending to study when he first went to Munich?

(A) Pure math

(B) Physics

(C) Art

(D) Chemistry

45. With whom did Heisenberg coauthor a paper modifying his own Zeeman principle?

(A) Fermi

(B) Kramers

(C) Landé

(D) Slater

46. How many siblings did Heisenberg have?

(A) One

(B) Two

(C) Three

(D) Four

47. What kind of series was involved in expressing the amplitude of virtual oscillators?

(A) Balmer

(B) Geometric

(C) Fourier

(D) Infinite

48. Where did Heisenberg turn down a chair in 1926?

(A) Leipzig

(B) Berlin

(C) Munich

(D) Göttingen

49. Why did Heisenberg turn down that chair?

(A) To recover from illness

(B) To work in Copenhagen

(C) To wait for a better opportunity

(D) To avoid an undesirable location

50. Which of the following should never mix, in Heisenberg's opinion?

(A) Science and politics

(B) Politics and religion

(C) Science and art

(D) Art and religion