Jochen Heisenberg | |
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| Born | 16 May 1939 |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | University of Munich University of Hamburg |
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| Fields | Nuclear physics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of New Hampshire |
| Doctoral advisor | Willibald Jentschke |
Jochen Heisenberg (born 16 May 1939) is a German physicist specializing in nuclear physics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of New Hampshire. He is the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg, who was a co-founder of the quantum mechanics, and who, in particular, introduced the uncertainty principle. He is the brother of German neurobiologist and geneticist Martin Heisenberg and the uncle of film director Benjamin Heisenberg.