- Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg [-, 1 ed.] 0-7167-2243-7

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface vii
PART ONE Young Werner 1
1 Family Matters 3
2 A Great War 20
3 Gymnasiast 38
4 Red and White 50
5 Pathfinding 65
PART TWO Quantum Mechanics 89
6 Sommerfeld’s Seminar 91
7 Cutting to the Core 110
8 Fair-Haired Farm Boy 131
9 Principles and Politics 155
10 Quantum Multiplying 181
11 Quantum Mechanic 204
12 Certain of Uncertainty 226
13 Spreading the Spirit 247
14 Fresh Fruits 267
PART THREE The Lonely Years 297
15 A New Regime 299
16 Herr Professor 314
17 Political Science 331
18 Sommerfeld’s Successor 346
19 An Unending Loneliness 365
20 Himmler’s Henchmen 379
21 German Physics 397
part four A World at War 415
22 A Fine Line 417
23 A Copenhagen Interpretation 433
24 An Ordered Reality 447
25 Target Number One 475
26 Reconstructing 501
27 Candles at the Door 523
Appendix A: Chronology 547
Appendix B: Heisenberg’s Textbooks and Readings at the Maximilians-Gymnasium 553 Notes 555 Name Index 643 Subject Index 655

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