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

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 ...

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; ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There ...

Werner Heisenberg 1901 - 1976. ... An unusual start for a great contributor to twentieth-century physics. In 1920 he entered the University of Munich to pursue a degree in math.

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 ...

In 1943, the German physicist Werner Heisenberg distracted himself from World War II by pondering a crisis in quantum theory. Predictions about how particles should behave were occasionally giving ...

Packed with features on the history, mystery and applications of quantum mechanics, it will be available via the Physics World website. The image accompanying this article is Werner Heisenberg in 1933 ...

You might say it all started with a spot of hay fever. In June 1925, a young physicist named Werner Heisenberg retreated to the barren island of Helgoland in the North Sea, seeking respite from ...

Later, famed quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg gushed over the beauty of a Stark effect measurement by a male colleague, Canadian physicist John Stuart Foster. In doing so, Heisenberg neglected ...