# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jochen-heisenberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:42:33.219Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jochen-heisenberg"
name: "Jochen Heisenberg"
slug: "jochen-heisenberg"
description: "Jochen Heisenberg is a German physicist specializing in nuclear physics, and Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of New Hampshire. He is the son of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg, who was a co-founder of quantum mechanics, and who, in particular, introduced the uncertainty principle. He is the brother of German neurobiologist and geneticist Martin Heisenberg and the uncle of film director Benjamin Heisenberg."
tagline: "German physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jochen_Heisenberg.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-05-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.333806666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Heisenberg"
    title: "Jochen Heisenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Heisenberg"
    title: "Jochen Heisenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Heisenberg"
    title: "Jochen Heisenberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6207234"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations