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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 121. Chapters: Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Erwin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, Ernest Rutherford, Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Guglielmo Marconi, Edward Witten, Ry ji Noyori, Gary Becker, Max Perutz, Alexis Carrel, Aage Bohr, Carlo Rubbia, John Eccles, Ahmed Zewail, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, David Baltimore, Abdus Salam, Stephen Hawking, Max von Laue, Francis Collins, John Charles Polanyi, George Coyne, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Georges Lemaitre, Charles Hard Townes, George Emil Palade, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Carlo Maria Martini, Tsung-Dao Lee, Paul J. Crutzen, Joshua Lederberg, Stanislas Dehaene, E. T. Whittaker, Chen Ning Yang, Robert J. White, Carlos Chagas Filho, Paul Janssen, Har Gobind Khorana, Paul Berg, Roald Sagdeev, Mario J. Molina, George Porter, Beatrice Mintz, Theodor W. Hansch, Werner Arber, Edward M. De Robertis, Stanley Jaki, Fotis Kafatos, Crodowaldo Pavan, Antonino Zichichi, Nicola Cabibbo, Vera Rubin, Gunter Blobel, Manfred Eigen, Jean-Marie Lehn, Micha Heller, Ingo Potrykus, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Christian de Duve, Rudolf Mossbauer, Agostino Gemelli, Alexander Rich, Joseph Murray, Aaron Ciechanover, Frank Press, Ennio de Giorgi, Peter H. Raven, Hans Tuppy, Jerome Lejeune, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Yuri I. Manin, Marcos Moshinsky, Maxine Singer, Walter Thirring, Richard Southwood, Takashi Gojobori, Sune Bergstrom, Kai Siegbahn, Andrzej Szczeklik, Jurgen Mittelstrass, Suzanne Cory, Raymond Hide, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe. Excerpt: Werner Heisenberg (5 December 1901 - 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory. In addition, he made important contributions to nuclear physics, quantum field theory, and particle physics. Heis..