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 ...

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

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

Quantum theory started with a bout of hay fever, and went on to transform our view of the universe – but its legacy isn't ...

and headed by Physicist Heisenberg, discoverer of the “uncertainty principle.”* Though Heisenberg moved his staff to Munich in 1958, Göttingen remains headquarters of the Max Planck Society ...

Black holes aren't just a product of general relativity, but also require quantum mechanics. In this video, we'll take a look at how the Pauli exclusion principle and Heisenberg uncertainty principle ...

This seemed like utter nonsense by the 20th century, but the idea that the smallest units of nature could be reduced to mathematical forms gripped the young Heisenberg. At this time, physics was the ...