Five fav’s and Blocked

By: Michael Vu

Isaac Newton’s Fav’s

René Descartes

• A great French philosopher and mathematician who had theories on how the universe was made. Thanks to his ideas Newton had a new theory based off his ideas.

Edmund Halley

• Halley was a close friend of Newton, and assisted in the publication of the Principia.

Amedeo Avogadro

• A chemist who studied about gases, and volume. A great science which a law was named after.

Charles Darwin

• Struck upon the theory of evolution. Had real evidence and never gave up in finding the truth.

Galileo

• Discovered planetary movement which is something related to Isaac Newton’s studies.

Isaac Newton’s Blocks

Robert Hooke

• Became a rival of Newton in the 1670s. They fought over the theories of light. Hooke later thought Newton stole his ideas.

Gottfried von Leibniz

• A brilliant German mathematician, and a contemporary of Newton. The two men developed a bitter feud in the early 1700s over who had first invented calculus

Hannah Newton

• Newton’s mother. When Newton was three she moved away in was cared by his uncle. This abandonment must have been traumatic.

Albert Einstein

• They both have different views on a fixed space or a flexible- space time.

Stephen Hawking

• A cosmopolitan who leans towards Einstein’s views of relativity. He even found wormholes.

Werner Heisenberg’s Fav’s

Niels Bohr

• Heisenberg's most influential mentor. He headed the Copenhagen Institute and helped to refine Heisenberg’s work.

Max Born

• Another one of Heisenberg’s mentors. He taught physics at Göttingen. Later on, he would recognize the matrix patterns of Heisenberg's work and help to establish quantum mechanics.

Wolfgang Pauli

• A physicist who was about the same age who was in the same career as Heisenberg, and worked with him.

Max Planck

• One of Heisenberg's precursors in quantum theory, would later collaborate with Heisenberg in an attempt to save German physics.

Ernest Sommerfeld

• He was Heisenberg’s first mentor. Also appointed Heisenberg as his successor, but it didn’t succeed.

Werner Heisenberg’s Fav’s

Albert Einstein

• He maybe the most famous scientist, but he had different view from Heisenberg. Einstein never accepted uncertainty and believed that determinism was attainable

Willy Wien

• One of Heisenberg’s professors who nearly failed him on his oral exam because he failed to explain competence in experimental physics.

Adolf Hitler

• Since Heisenberg is German Hitler could of drafted him into the war and force him to fight with no science. This would probably alter Heisenberg’s life.