10 youngest Nobel Laureates in history of the world (With Pictures)

3. Werner Heisenberg

At the age of 31, German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Physics Prize “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen”. He was the solo winner of the prize in the year 1932. He is one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He has been given honorary doctorates from the University of Bruxelles, the Technological University of Karlsruhe, and the University of Budapest. He also made important contributions to the theories of the hydrodynamics of turbulent flows, the atomic nucleus, ferromagnetism, cosmic rays, and subatomic particles.