He decided to give up all mental pictures of an atom and to try to explain the structure of an atom mathematically.To his surprise, he found out that the behaviour of an atom could not even be explained by pure mathematics! In traditional mathematics, if two constants are multiplied, they yield the same answer e.g.- 7Г—8 =8Г—7.

In 1925, Heisenberg was suffering from hay fever, due to which his face was swollen up beyond recognition.He decided to escape to an isolated island in Norway to spend some time alone. Heisenberg was a very young ,competitive man.He was exceptionally talented.At the age of 22, he got his PhD under Sommerfield!! Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg hated each otherвЂ™s ideas.Heisenberg took SchrodingerвЂ™s ideas as a personal affront.He was now determined to prove that the capricious atom could not be modelled simply as waves(as proposed by Schrodinger) and that just an equation could not reveal its secret. Werner Heisenberg, was a German theoretical physicist,who was studying under Sommerfield.Sommerfield knew about HeisenbergвЂ™s interest in Niels BohrвЂ™s thesis and so he introduced him to BohrвЂ™s idea of Quantum Mechanics.Later,Heisenberg started working with Niels Bohr in 1924.He completely supported BohrвЂ™s idea of the atom.

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