Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1932, announced November 9, 1933. Werner Heisenberg, “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”. Werner Heisenberg: born 1901, Würzburg, Germany. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).