But as the war began the government recognized, suspect or not, the importance of Heisenberg's knowledge. He was made director of the German atom bomb project. He spent five years working on it.

In 1927, Werner Heisenberg was in Denmark working at Niels Bohr's research institute in Copenhagen. The two scientists worked closely on theoretical investigations into quantum theory and the ...

Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek ...

The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there ... For curious minds: -Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that position and velocity cannot be measured at the same time.

Programmable atom arrays, a leading architecture for ... These systems could achieve Heisenberg-limited performance, redefining the boundaries of timekeeping and measurement.

But as the war began the government recognized, suspect or not, the importance of Heisenberg's knowledge. He was made director of the German atom bomb project. He spent five years working on it.