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

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Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage More than 300 top quantum physicists gathered ...

In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

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 ...

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.

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; ...

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 ...

Werner Heisenberg, who was an unknown physics postdoc at the time, had just cobbled together, in crude and unfamiliar mathematics, a framework that would shortly become what we know as “matrix ...