Werner Heisenberg, one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, played a central role in Germany’s atomic bomb program during WWII. But a scientific mistake he made effectively derailed Germany ...

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 ...

“What people say about their own motives and intentions, even when they are not caught in the traps that entangled Heisenberg, is always subject to question…. Thoughts and intentions, even one’s own – ...