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Strictly speaking, the controversy about Heisenberg’s behaviour during the Nazi era is also a postwar story. It began in1947 when the American physicist Samuel Goudsmit published Alsos, a grim account ...
But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain. Intrinsic uncertainty was central to the way German physicist Werner Heisenberg, one of the originators of modern quantum mechanics ...
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 ...
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have achieved exciting progress in quantum metrology, a field ...
According to scientific legend, quantum mechanics was born on the island of Helgoland in 1925. A hundred years later, ...
In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...
German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg first introduced his uncertainty principle in a 1925 paper. It’s special because it remains intact no matter how good our experimental methods get; ...
The Physicists: Werner Heisenberg (left) led Germany’s nuclear program, while Danish physicist Niels Bohr (right) escaped the Nazis. Image by Getty Images. By Julia M. Klein November 29, 2014 ...
So says German physicist Werner Heisenberg in Michael Frayn’s play “Copenhagen,” playing at the Wilshire Theater. I hate to argue with someone no longer around to defend himself, but I beg ...