''The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory'' ( publisher: ''S. Hirzel Verlag'', 1930) by

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(1932)

Werner Heisenberg Werner Karl Heisenberg () (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series ...

and subsequently translated by

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and Frank C. Hoyt. The book was first published in 1930 by

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. Then in 1949, according to its copyright page,

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reprinted the "unabridged and unaltered" 1930's version. The book is collection of 1929 university lectures by Heisenberg but with more detailed mathematics. The book discusses

quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles. It is the foundation of all quantum physics including quantum chemistry, ...

and one 1931 review states that this is a "less technical and less involved account of the theor . This book has been cited more than 2,000 times. In the book, after briefly discussing various theories, including

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, Heisenberg discusses the basis for the fundamental concepts of quantum theory. Also by this time Heisenberg has stated, "the interaction between observer and object causes uncontrollable and large changes in the tomicsystem being observed...". In this work Heisenberg also discusses his

uncertainty principle In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle) is any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values for certain pairs of physic ...

or uncertainty relations. (Book review)

About the author

Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901 - d. 1976) was a renowned German

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whose work pioneered and advanced

. He received his PhD in 1923 from

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

under

Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretica ...

. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen". as cited in The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932
Nobelprize.org. Retrieved on September 16, 2019.
nbsp;– Nobel Prize Presentation Speech.

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