The Drama in the Development of Quantum Mechanics in 1926-27

Werner Heisenberg was often labeled as the wunderkind (wonder child) of physics in the 1920's. Some thought he looked like a farm boy, but he was anything but a country bumpkin. His father was an academic scholar on the faculty of Munich University. Werner's grandfather was the head of a prestigious gymnasium (secondary school). Werner and his older brother attended that school. After graduation Werner Heisenberg wanted to study mathematics at Munich University but his interview in the mathematics department there did not go well and he was not accepted. His father called upon his old friend, the physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, to accept Werner into the physics program. Sommerfeld was one of the top physicists in the world at that time and Werner was indeed fortunate to undertake his education at Sommerfeld's institution. In happened that Wolfgang Pauli was also studying there and Werner made his acquaintance. Niels Bohr gave a series of lectures at Göttingen and Sommerfeld and a continge

Werner Heisenberg was often labeled as the wunderkind (wonder child) of physics in the 1920's. Some thought he looked like a farm boy, but he was anything but a country bumpkin. His father was an academic scholar on the faculty of Munich University. Werner's grandfather was the head of a prestigious gymnasium (secondary school). Werner and his older brother attended that school. After graduation Werner Heisenberg wanted to study mathematics at Munich University but his interview in the mathematics department there did not go well and he was not accepted. His father called upon his old friend,