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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.

From left in front, German physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, Danish physicist Christian Moller and American nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert OppenheimerCredit ...

This explanation—with contributions from notable physicists Werner Heisenberg, Max Born ... a radioactive atom, and a vial of poison, the atom may or may not decay at a given moment, breaking ...

Photo by Ashley Horner/LALT In 1941, German physicist Werner Heisenberg met his Danish colleague Niels Bohr in Copenhagen to discuss, in part, the development of the atomic bomb. What else did ... the ...

From left, ‘Copenhagen’ actors Jeff Favorite as Werner Heisenberg, Angel Virgillio, center. as Margrethe Bohr, and Thomas ...