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1For what year did Heisenberg win the Nobel Prize?

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

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3What was August Heisenberg's field?

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4What was the alternative to matrix mechanics called?

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5To what principle did Bohr extend the uncertainty principle?

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

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

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8Where did Heisenberg receive his first full professorship appointment?

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9Whom did Heisenberg succeed as Born's assistant?

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

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11What was Heisenberg's brother's name?

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

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

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

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

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16On what subject did Heisenberg write his doctoral thesis?

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

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

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

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20At what school was Heisenberg habilitated in 1924?

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

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

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

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24Who coauthored the paper on dispersion with Heisenberg?

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

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26Who was Heisenberg's experimentalist counterpart at Leipzig?

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27Who discovered the neutron?

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

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

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30For what work was Heisenberg awarded the Nobel Prize?

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31To what directorship was Heisenberg promoted in 1942?

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32What was the cause of Heisenberg's death?

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

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34In what year did Heisenberg receive his doctorate?

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

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36How many children did Heisenberg have?

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37Whom did Heisenberg NOT serve as assistant?

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38Why did Heisenberg relocate to Munich in 1910?

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

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40What is the highest rank August Heisenberg attained?

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

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42Who was Robert Honsell?

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43What other career did Heisenberg seriously consider?

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

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

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46How many siblings did Heisenberg have?

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

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48Where did Heisenberg turn down a chair in 1926?

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49Why did Heisenberg turn down that chair?

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

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