<i>Der Teil Und Das Ganze</i>

Heisenberg, W.; Bunge, Mario

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“…to Heisenberg's role in the German nuclear project. This is practically the only point on which he agrees with Heisenberg (1969) himself; the book under review takes the same stance. Other authors, such as Irving (1967), Bagge and Diebner (1957), and in particularly Walker (1989), sketch a different picture that seems more realistic; see below.…”

Section: Goudsmitmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…59 As analyzed in detail by Rose, who is infuriated by it, this symmetry argument came up in a different version in later writings of both Heisenberg and Weizsäcker, in which it is stated that at the end of the day the German scientists had merely worked on the peaceful use of nuclear energy, whereas their Allied colleagues had built atomic bombs. In this light, Heisenberg (1969) contains a remarkable passage, already noted by Mott and Peierls (1977), viz. 'The fact that in wartime no attempt was made in Germany to construct atomic bombs although the knowledge of the principles existed, probably had a favourable effect on these negotiations'.…”

Section: Werner Heisenbergmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Assuming, with most commentators, that Bohr's memory is not deeply mistaken, it is now clear that the accounts of Heisenberg's role in wartime Germany presented in Jungk (1958), Heisenberg (1969), Hermann (1977), Powers (1993) have lost what little credibility they might still have had before the above release. Cf.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Heisenberg, an erroneous judgement by Bothe, a later Nobel laureate, stopped the Germans taking this route. See Heisenberg (1969) and Irving (1967). This version has been criticized by Walker (1989) 26 See, for example, Frank (1993) or Bernstein (1996).…”

Section: Frankmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…63 Although her account of the Heisenberg-Bohr encounter of 1941 seems even more distorted than her husband's, claiming that Heisenberg wanted to signal to Bohr that Germany would not and could not build an atomic bomb. Heisenberg (1969) more modestly claims he intended to discuss with Bohr the moral aspects of working on nuclear energy in times of war. See Frayn (1998) for a recent dramatized perspective on this meeting.…”

Section: Elisabeth Heisenbergmentioning

confidence: 99%

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£21.95.'Aber es ist ein wichtiger Unterschied zwischen allem, was vor 1933 geschah, und dem, was dann kam: Alles frühere zog an uns vorbei undüber uns hin, es beschäftigte uns und regte uns auf, und den einen oder andern tötete es oder ließ ihn verarmen; aber keinen stellte es vor letzte Gewissensentscheidungen. Ein innerster Lebensbezirk blieb unberührt. Man machte Erfahrungen, man bildeteÜberzeugungen: Aber man blieb, was man war. Keiner, der, willig oder widerstrebend, in die Maschine des Dritten Reichs geraten ist, kann das ehrlich von sich sagen.' (Sebastian Haffner) 1 IntroductionWerner Heisenberg (1901Heisenberg ( -1976) is probably best known for his discovery of the uncertainty relations in quantum mechanics and their physical interpretation (1927). En route to quantum mechanics itself, he had earlier had the decisive insight that quantum-mechanical variables do not commute (1925). This formed the basis for the creation of matrix mechanics immediately afterwards by Born and Jordan, appearing in mature form in the 'Dreimännerarbeit' with Heisenberg. 2 This was one of the two paths along which modern quantum mechanics was discovered.Some of his other achievements in theoretical physics deserve to be mentioned. Barely 20, and well before the introduction of electron spin, Heisenberg made the revolutionary proposal to allow half-integral quantum numbers in the context of the Zeeman effect (1921). He made various other significant contributions in the period 1920-1925 that led to the establishment of quantum mechanics, and once the new theory had arrived, he was the first to derive a number of important consequences. He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize 'for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has led, among other things, to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen' (official citation). Similarly, Heisenberg provided the quantum-mechanical explanation of the occurrence of para-and ortho-helium (1926). His explanation of ferromagnetism (1928) stands out, too, but his most important work of the period is the foundation of quantum field theory with Pauli (1929). A few years later he became one of the founders of theoretical nuclear physics with a detailed proposal on the interactions between protons and neutrons in a nucleus. 3 Heisenberg had certain other ideas that were somewhat off focus when he proposed them, but which in later developments by others turned out to be influential. This applies to his suggestion to replace quantum field theory by an S-matrix (1942), an idea that came to dominate elementary particle physics in the sixties, to his proposal of a minimal length (1936), which much later found its correct incarnation in lattice field theory as well as in quantum gravity, to his description of superconductivity as a phase transition in the late forties, eventually leading to the modern idea of 0 Supported by a fellowship from the Royal Netherlands

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Section: Goudsmitmentioning

confidence: 75%

Section: Werner Heisenbergmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Acknowledgementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Frankmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Elisabeth Heisenbergmentioning

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Der Teil Und Das Ganze

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Getting even with Heisenberg

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Quantengravitation — vom Schwarzen Loch zum Wurmloch?

Egocentric Dynamic Planar Organization of the Angular Movements of the Arm During a Violinist’s Performance of a Mozart Symphony

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