An error by one of the world's greatest scientists derailed Germany's effort to build an atomic bomb during WWII.

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to ...

A century since Werner Heisenberg changed the course of physics, five of the world's leading physicists examine the greatest ...

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 ...

The 17-year-old, whose name was Werner Karl Heisenberg, was reading Plato’s ideas about the smallest units of matter: the Greek philosopher had thought all matter was made up of tiny right-angled ...

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 ...

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 ...