Quantum physics underlies technologies from the laser to the smartphone. The International Year of Quantum marks a century of scientific developments.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria. Back in Munich after the war, he volunteered as a messenger for ...

(Hint: Teller doesn't think it's nuclear war.) Did Werner Heisenberg, Teller's former teacher, purposely stall Germany's efforts to produce an Atomic Bomb in World War II? And would Teller's ...

The publication of Werner Heisenberg’s article was arguably the moment that ushered in the modern age of quantum mechanics, thus setting in train an astonishing revolution in our basic ...

Masquerading as a studious physics graduate, the hulking Harlem-born Jew listened attentively to the keynote speaker, the Nobel-prize winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg. His instructions were ...

Quantum physics will be 100 years old in 2025. In order to appreciate progress in quantum physics, we must not get caught up ...

The United Nations has declared 2025 to be "The Year of Quantum Science and Technology", in honour of the centenary of Werner Heisenberg's paper, "Quantum-mechanical reinterpretation of kinematic ...

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that we cannot know both the position and the momentum of a particle at once Imagine driving a car fitted with a GPS navigation system that glitches ...

Heisenberg, who would later win the Nobel Prize for Physics, famously came up with quantum mechanics on a two-week vacation ...