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UncertaintyBOOKS/Nonfiction
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International Herald Tribune
02-13-2007
UncertaintyEinstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of ScienceBy David Lindley257 pages. $26. Doubleday.Reviewed by Janet Maslin*Last week, in an unprecedented feat of quantum mechanics, Harvard physicists were able to use a cloud of Bose-Einstein condensate to stop a pulse of light and then resuscitate the light at a different location. ''That's the sort of stuff we find really sexy in this business,'' said Er...
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For Heisenberg's birthday, celebrate uncertainty.(The Dallas Morning News)
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; For someone who should have known better, Werner Heisenberg seemed awfully sure of himself. He considered himself a German patriot and therefore led the team trying to build an atomic bomb for Hitler. Heisenberg later claimed that his team was just trying to build a reactor, not a bomb. Historical
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THE CENTRAL FACTS FROM THE COURSES YOU ALWAYS MEANT TO TAKE, IN 25 LECTURES
The Independent - London
; Werner Heisenberg's glory moment came when he was still very young - just 24 - in the summer of 1925. He'd felt trapped at his university in Germany; his hay fever was bad and hecouldn't bear the obscure science he was supposed to accept - with images of atoms as rickety little solar systems, with
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(theater review)
Queen's Quarterly
; At the height of World War II a secret meeting took place in German-occupied Denmark between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and a former student and colleague, the German physicist Werner Heisenberg. Did Heisenberg set up the meeting in order to spy on Bohr's nuclear research on behalf of the Nazis,
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GERMANY'S HIGH PRIEST OF UNCERTAINTY
The Boston Globe
; HE WAS SHADOWED BY THE GESTAPO AND HIGH ON THE SHOOT-TO-KILL LIST OF AN AMERICAN SPY. THE MILD-MANNERED PROFESSOR'S SCIENTIFIC THEORIES AND POLITICAL LOYALTIES STILL STIR DEBATE 100 YEARS AFTER HIS BIRTH. Werner Karl Heisenberg, the most important scientist not to flee Hitler's Germany, was born on
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A human uncertainty principle.(opinions of World War II German nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg)(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report
; ... atom bomb and certainly no suggestion that physicists agree to abstain from the work. Most horrifying to Bohr, he wrote, was the news, as I had to understand it, that Germany was participating vigorously in a race to be the first with atomic weapons. Bohr did ...
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