Werner Heisenberg was a 20th century Human physicist. He was the originator of the uncertainty principle, which predicted the existence of vacuum state fluctuations.
In 3190, Commander Paul Stamets identified spatial cells that would allow the USS Discovery to traverse the galactic barrier. As the cells were formed by vacuum state fluctuations, he told Captain Michael Burnham to thank Heisenberg for the insight. (DIS: "The Galactic Barrier")