Helgoland, birthplace of quantum theory, where Werner Heisenberg's breakthrough on matrix mechanics revolutionised physics in ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...

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German physicist Werner Heisenberg made great contributions to a vital area of modern physics, quantum theory – most notably with his Uncertainty Principle.

Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during WWII. But a scientific mistake he made effectively derailed ...

Werner Heisenberg took home the Nobel Prize for his work on the principle of “uncertainty.” Walter probably would have looked up to the man, and he no doubt would have liked to become equally ...

Devised by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the so-called uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or ...

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about ...