Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics As a student, he met Niels Bohr in Göttingen in 1922. A fruitful collaboration developed between the two. He invented matrix mechanics, the first formalization of quantum mechanics in [...]

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist, with considerable applied mathematical abilities, who is widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and cosmology. He was awarded [...]