6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

3.Werner Heisenberg

Age: 31

Date of Birth: December 5^th, 1901

Award: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1932

Our fourth young physicist in the list of 6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners, Heisenberg studied physics at the University of Munich and, following his PhD, became Max Born’s assistant at the University of Göttingen. He had a number of other successful research positions at universities across Europe. However, it was the end of the Second World War which saw his path change fate, being taken prisoner by the American military intelligence team as he cycled to his family’s holiday home in Bavaria. He was held captive in England until January 1946, when he returned to the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He won the Nobel Prize for his discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics. He had seven children and died in 1976.