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 ...

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage In this episode of Physics World Stories, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Werner Heisenberg’s trip to the North Sea ...

Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Masquerading as a studious physics graduate, the hulking Harlem-born Jew listened attentively to the keynote speaker, the Nobel-prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg. His instructions were ...

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we cannot know both the position and the momentum of a particle at once Imagine driving a car fitted with a GPS navigation system that glitches ...

The United Nations proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, marking the centenary of Werner Heisenberg's efforts to develop the mathematical formulation of ...

Located on Werner-Heisenberg-Allee – named after famous German atomic physicist and 1932 Nobel Prize for Physics winner Werner Heisenberg – and built by local rivals Bayern München and 1860 ...

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 ...