Uncertainty (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David C. Cassidy
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Scientific biography
- Time of Work: 1901-1976
- Setting: Germany
- Principal Characters: Werner Heisenberg, Elisabeth (Schumacher) Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Arnold Sommerfeld
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology
- Subjects: World War II, Nobel Prizes, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Atomic bomb, Physics or physicists, Quantum theory, Nuclear energy or power plants, Nuclear physics
- Locales: Germany
It is the tragedy of Werner Heisenberg’s life, and a major theme of this well- researched biography, that the evils of National Socialism contaminated the idealistic world of science in which Heisenberg tried to find refuge and that he tried to keep pure from the poison of politics. He managed to create a body of work, including his uncertainty principle, that has had a profound influence not only on scientists but also on philosophers and other intellectuals. David Cassidy entitled his book Uncertainty not solely in reference to this famous scientific principle but to...
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