Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during ... 235 needed to sustain a nuclear chain reaction.

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... By the end of the year the physicist Werner Heisenberg had calculated that nuclear fission chain reactions might be possible. When slowed down and ...

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

Werner Heisenberg's trip to Heligoland in June 1925 ... in a specific context — the context of Niels Bohr's model of the atom. Both matrix mechanics and wave mechanics were constructed against ...

Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World ... He was made director of the German atom bomb project. He spent five years working on it. At war's end, Heisenberg was captured by ...