Werner Karl Heisenberg was born on 5 December 1901 in Würzburg, northern Bavaria, and moved to Munich at the age of nine when his father became a professor of Greek studies at the university. In his ...

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

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

German physicist Werner Heisenberg made great contributions to a vital area of modern physics, quantum theory – most notably with his Uncertainty Principle. Quantum theory describes the world on ...

Werner Heisenberg 1901 - 1976. Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria.

Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during WWII. But a scientific mistake he made effectively derailed ...

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 ...

“The Rigor of Angels,” by William Egginton, considers how three very different men — Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant and Werner Heisenberg — rejected conventional assumptions about ...