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Beyond uncertainty : Heisenberg, quantum physics, and the bomb
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Beyond uncertainty : Heisenberg, quantum physics, and the bomb

Author: David C Cassidy
Publisher: New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Heisenberg's life reconsidered for the 21st century by the world's leading English-language authority.

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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Werner Heisenberg
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: David C Cassidy
ISBN: 9781934137130 1934137138
OCLC Number: 319116797
Description: p. cm.
Contents: The early years --
The world at war --
The gymnasium years --
The battle of Munich --
Finding his path --
Sommerfeld's Institute --
Confronting the quantum --
Modeling atoms --
Channeling rivers, challenging causality --
Entering the matrix --
Awash in matrices, rescued by waves --
Determining uncertainty --
Reaching the top --
New frontiers --
Into the abyss --
Social atoms --
Of particles and politics --
Heir apparent --
The lonely years --
A Faustian bargain --
One who could not leave --
The war and its uses --
Visiting Copenhagen --
Ordering reality --
Professor in Berlin --
Return to the matrix --
One last attempt --
Explaining the project, farm hall --
Explaining the project, the world --
The later years.
Responsibility: by David C. Cassidy.

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