Though the principle is not violated, a new way of fudging its restrictions could lead to improvements in ultra-precise ...

In 1925, a young German physicist fled to the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea to ease a severe bout of hay fever. With nothing but daily walks and long swims to distract him, 23-year-old ...

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Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

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 ...

A cornerstone of quantum physics is uncertainty. Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states the more precisely you pinpoint the position of a particle, the less precisely you can know its momentum at ...

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If you’d like to listen to Werner Heisenberg compare the physics prowess of Arnold Sommerfeld, Max Born, and Niels Bohr , just click here and you will be taken to the new online Oral Histories section ...

Scientists demonstrate for the second time that theoretical models of quantum physics can be realized with nanographenes, making their predictions experimentally testable. In the alternating model, ...