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Werner Heisenberg
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1. For what year did Heisenberg win the Nobel Prize?
1930
1931
1932
1933
2. In what year did Heisenberg actually receive the Nobel Prize?
1931
1932
1933
1934
3. What was August Heisenberg's field?
Physics
Mathematics
Greek philology
Astronomy
4. What was the alternative to matrix mechanics called?
Wave mechanics
Quantum mechanics
Particle mechanics
Auto mechanics
5. To what principle did Bohr extend the uncertainty principle?
Certainty principle
Correspondence principle
Complementarity principle
Complimentary principle
6. Which colleague recognized the matrix multiplication rules in Heisenberg's work?
Rutherford
Born
Sommerfeld
Kramers
7. On how many published papers did Heisenberg and Pauli collaborate?
One
Two
Three
Four
8. Where did Heisenberg receive his first full professorship appointment?
Munich
Leipzig
Berlin
Copenhagen
9. Whom did Heisenberg succeed as Born's assistant?
Pauli
Bohr
Planck
Schrödinger
10. What Munich professor almost failed Heisenberg because of his incompetence in experimental physics?
Lenard
Stark
Sommerfeld
Wien
11. What was Heisenberg's brother's name?
Max
Erwin
August
Albert
12. What instrument did Heisenberg play for most of his life?
Flute
Guitar
Violin
Piano
13. What was the emphasis of Heisenberg's gymnasium education placed on?
Mathematics
Greek and Latin
Physics
Technical training
14. What philosopher did Heisenberg read while working on a farm in 1918?
Aristotle
Plato
Kant
Spinoza
15. What was one of the central differences between Schrödinger's and Heisenberg's pictures of the atom?
Continuity vs. discontinuity
Mathematics-based vs. philosophy-based
Theory-based vs. experiment-based
Correct results vs. incorrect results
16. On what subject did Heisenberg write his doctoral thesis?
Hydrodynamics
Quantum theory
Special relativity
General relativity
17. In what year did Heisenberg receive the Max Planck Medal?
1932
1933
1934
1935
18. With what level of honors did Heisenberg receive his doctorate?
I
II
III
IV
19. Whose quantum postulate did Heisenberg's Zeeman principle modify?
Einstein's
Planck's
Sommerfeld's
Bohr's
20. At what school was Heisenberg habilitated in 1924?
Munich
Göttingen
Leipzig
Berlin
21. What theory attempted to abandon the laws of energy and momentum conservation?
Uncertainty principle
BKS theory
Pauli exclusion principle
Zeeman principle
22. Which one of the following was not a coauthor of the matrix mechanics paper?
Bohr
Heisenberg
Born
Jordan
23. Who theorized the existence of a "dark point"?
Born
Bohr
Kramers
Pauli
24. Who coauthored the paper on dispersion with Heisenberg?
Pauli
Kramers
Schrödinger
Einstein
25. How old was Heisenberg when he became Germany's youngest full professor?
Twenty-four
Twenty-five
Twenty-six
Twenty-seven
26. Who was Heisenberg's experimentalist counterpart at Leipzig?
Debye
Sommerfeld
Wien
Lenard
27. Who discovered the neutron?
Hahn
Rutherford
Chadwick
Planck
28. Who intervened on Heisenberg's behalf when he came under the attack of Nazi propaganda?
Hitler
Lenard
Stark
Himmler
29. What aging scientist encouraged Heisenberg not to resign and leave Germany?
Planck
Einstein
Born
Sommerfeld
30. For what work was Heisenberg awarded the Nobel Prize?
Quantum mechanics
Uncertainty principle
Zeeman principle
Core model
31. To what directorship was Heisenberg promoted in 1942?
Max Planck Institute
Sommerfeld Institute
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Institute for Advanced Study
32. What was the cause of Heisenberg's death?
Typhoid fever
Influenza
Cancer
Einstein
33. The uncertainty principle asserts the impossibility of exactly measuring which two variables simultaneously?
Velocity and mass
Mass and position
Mass and momentum
Position and velocity
34. In what year did Heisenberg receive his doctorate?
1922
1923
1924
1925
35. What was the age difference between Heisenberg and his wife?
Ten years
Thirteen years
Sixteen years
Twenty years
36. How many children did Heisenberg have?
One
Three
Five
Seven
37. Whom did Heisenberg NOT serve as assistant?
Bohr
Born
Pauli
Sommerfeld
38. Why did Heisenberg relocate to Munich in 1910?
His father was appointed to a new chair there
Conditions in his hometown were becoming unbearable
His family wanted him to attend school there
His father lost his job in their hometown
39. What influential position did Heisenberg's maternal grandfather hold?
Rector of the Maximilians-Gymnasium
Chair of the Greek philology department at Munich
Chair of the Munich faculty committee
Chancellor of Germany
40. What is the highest rank August Heisenberg attained?
Major
Lieutenant
General
Captain
41. What was Heisenberg's youth movement group known as?
Werner's Kids
Gruppe Heisenberg
Youth for Social Justice
Bavarian Youth Society
42. Who was Robert Honsell?
An early childhood friend
A science teacher at the Maximilians-Gymnasium
A youth movement companion well versed in philosophy
A scientific nemesis at Munich
43. What other career did Heisenberg seriously consider?
Music
Law
Athletics
Philosophy
44. What was Heisenberg intending to study when he first went to Munich?
Pure math
Physics
Art
Chemistry
45. With whom did Heisenberg coauthor a paper modifying his own Zeeman principle?
Fermi
Kramers
Landé
Slater
46. How many siblings did Heisenberg have?
One
Two
Three
Four
47. What kind of series was involved in expressing the amplitude of virtual oscillators?
Balmer
Geometric
Fourier
Infinite
48. Where did Heisenberg turn down a chair in 1926?
Leipzig
Berlin
Munich
Göttingen
49. Why did Heisenberg turn down that chair?
To recover from illness
To work in Copenhagen
To wait for a better opportunity
To avoid an undesirable location
50. Which of the following should never mix, in Heisenberg's opinion?
Science and politics
Politics and religion
Science and art
Art and religion
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