Background
He is the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg, who is best known for the uncertainty principle.
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Jochen Heisenberg
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Education
Heisenberg studied physics with Willibald Jentschke at the University of Hamburg and received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1968.
Career
He then spent a two year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. During his early career at Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Heisenberg participated in numerous experimental studies of nuclear reactions. Using the Bates Linear Accelerator, he published numerous papers on electroexcitations.
After his move to UNH, he began to study methods for theoretical prediction of such reactions.
During the past ten years, he has been active in the development of computational models of large nuclei and has published several papers on these topics. Heisenberg has spoken several times to provide an historical perspective on the activities of his father during and after World World War World War II He has been invited to comment on Michael Frayn"s well-known play Copenhagen and has published his perspectives on his father"s activities.
He currently maintains an informational website containing biographical information and reference material on Werner Heisenberg.
Membership
From 1970-1978 he was a member of the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
