Elisabeth Heisenberg
(1914-1998)
BIRTH
1914
PLACE
Berlin, Germany
NAME
Elisabeth Schumacher
DEATH
1998
PLACE
Göttingen, Germany
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Elisabeth Heisenberg was the wife of the German physicist Werner Heisenberg and the author of a memoir of his life under the Nazi regime, published in English as Inner Exile (1984). She grew up in an academic family in Bonn and Berlin. Elisabeth and Heisenberg had seven children. In 1980 Elisabeth published a memoir, The Political Life of an Unpolitical Person, defending her husband's conduct under Hitler. He died in 1976. She died in 1998.
EARLY LIFE
Elisabeth Schumacher was born in Berlin in 1914, the daughter of Hermann Schumacher, a professor of economics, and the sister of the economist E. F. Schumacher, author of Small Is Beautiful. She grew up in an academic family in Bonn and Berlin. In January 1937, she met Werner Heisenberg at a musical evening in Leipzig, where he was a professor of physics. They married on April 29, 1937, about three months later.
Elisabeth and Heisenberg had seven children. During the Second World War, while he worked on the German nuclear program, she lived with the children at Urfeld, in the Bavarian Alps.
After the war the family moved to Göttingen and then, in 1958, to Munich, where Heisenberg directed the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He died in 1976.
In 1980 Elisabeth published a memoir, The Political Life of an Unpolitical Person, defending her husband's conduct under Hitler. She died in 1998.
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Elisabeth Heisenberg was the wife of the German physicist Werner Heisenberg and the author of a memoir of his life under the Nazi regime, published in English as Inner Exile. In 1980 Elisabeth published a memoir, The Political Life of an Unpolitical Person, defending her husband's conduct under Hitler. Elisabeth and Heisenberg had seven children. During the Second World War, while he worked on the German nuclear program, she lived with the children at Urfeld, in the Bavarian Alps. Elisabeth Heisenberg died in 1998, in Göttingen, Germany. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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Elisabeth Heisenberg, Werner Heisenberg’s wife. Inner Exile is her memoir; the other selections concern her husband. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Inner Exile: Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg — Elisabeth Heisenberg. [Memoir] Find on Amazon
2. Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg — David C. Cassidy. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
3. Beyond Uncertainty: Heisenberg, Quantum Physics, and the Bomb — David C. Cassidy. [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
4. Heisenberg in the Atomic Age: Science and the Public Sphere — Cathryn Carson. [Related biography and public-history study] Find on Amazon
5. Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb — Thomas Powers. [Related historical study of her husband] Find on Amazon
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