Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria. Back in Munich after the war, he volunteered as a messenger for ...

(Hint: Teller doesn't think it's nuclear war.) Did Werner Heisenberg, Teller's former teacher, purposely stall Germany's efforts to produce an Atomic Bomb in World War II? And would Teller's ...

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we cannot know both the position and the momentum of a particle at once Imagine driving a car fitted with a GPS navigation system that glitches ...

theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg, philosopher Immanuel Kant and writer Jorge Luis Borges. In brief, they humbly accept the “irreconcilability of our cognition and the whole of the cosmos”.

In this deeply researched and imaginatively conceived book, Carson authoritatively delineates Werner Heisenberg's influential role in the shaping of West Germany, integrating his engagements in ...

Werner Heisenberg's trip to Heligoland in June 1925 is a legend. Plagued by hay fever, the 23-year old escaped to the pollen-free island in the North Sea, to return with deep insight that would ...

There’s quantum mechanics, the basic mathematical framework that underpins it all, which was first developed in the 1920s by Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger and others.

Over our distinguished history, we have been proud to publish multiple Nobel laureates, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Feynman, Philip Anderson, Roger Penrose, Frank Wilczek, ...

It originated in 1961 as the computing centre of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics which was founded by Werner Heisenberg and the Max Planck Society. Key tasks for Max Planck Institutes all ...

Heisenberg and Euler could see this milestone on the horizon of extremes, yet I doubt they thought we'd reach it so quickly. Science moves forward, at least in part, by pursuing extremes ...

In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on ...