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

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 ...

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 ...

But their ideas fell short of describing a complete theory. It was the German physicist Werner Heisenberg who, in 1925, first put forward a comprehensive version of quantum mechanics. Later that ...

The United Nations has declared 2025 to be "The Year of Quantum Science and Technology", in honour of the centenary of Werner Heisenberg's paper, "Quantum-mechanical reinterpretation of kinematic ...

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 ...

In science, a photon is a particle of light (almost always moving). Werner Heisenberg is driving down the highway and get pulled over for speeding. The cop asks Heisenberg, who was driving ...