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

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

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 1901 - 1976. Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria.

In terms of science or the history of science, Werner Heisenberg’s visit to Niels Bohr, in September 1941 in German-occupied Denmark, was a nonevent.

Werner Heisenberg, who was an unknown physics postdoc at the time, had just cobbled together, in crude and unfamiliar mathematics, a framework that would shortly become what we know as “matrix ...

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 ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the likes of Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann – but whose contributions to ...

Werner Heisenberg: controversial scientist. In a slightly arch play on the uncertainty principle – a motif that Frayn also used – she has Heisenberg deliver a final soliloquy in which he answers the ...

“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 ...