Say his name: Werner Heisenberg. He’s the real Heisenberg, the inspiration behind Walter White’s alter ego on Breaking Bad. Out of all of the famous scientists out there, why did Walt choose ...

Werner Heisenberg won the 1932 Nobel Prize for helping to found the field of quantum mechanics and developing foundational ideas like the Copenhagen interpretation and the uncertainty principle.

In fact, in drawing parallels between the work of Werner Heisenberg, a German theoretical physicist, and Oriental mysticism, the book only highlights an ex post facto connection between the ...

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 e… ...

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 ...

Secret letters written by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr about his famous 1941 meeting with Werner Heisenberg – then head of Germany's nuclear programme – are released today by the Niels Bohr Archive ...

In a battle between the star principles of the quantum story, there can be only one winner. Or can there? SOME middle-aged men have trains in their attics. Niels Bohr had Werner Heisenberg. In the ...

Historians have long been intrigued with the 1941 meeting that saw German physicist Werner Heisenberg travelling to Copenhagen to meet his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, as the two old friends ...

Werner Heisenberg's wartime letters to his wife record scientific and personal privations, finds Ann Finkbeiner.

DOCUMENTS just released show unequivocally that the renowned German physicist Werner Heisenberg was building an atomic bomb for his country during the Second World War. The revelations, in letters ...

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg reasoned that scientists couldn’t take a measurement of a physical object without changing it in some way. The idea, which has persisted in physics, was based on ...