How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that ... By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might ...

Werner Heisenberg's high school ... the importance of Heisenberg's knowledge. He was made director of the German atom bomb project. He spent five years working on it. At war's end, Heisenberg ...

bushy-browed Dr. Werner Heisenberg, a top German physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize, said that Russia had made a standing offer of $6,000 a year to any German atomic scientist who would ...