Werner Heisenberg

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the Nazi's in power, and World War two on the horizon it was
inevitable that his German heritage would play a crucial role in his career.
Before Germany's blitzkrieg on Poland Heisenberg decided to make one final visit
of his friends in the West. Many tried to convince him to stay and accept a
professorship at Columbia, but Heisenberg declined. He felt that it was his
duty to preserve the foundation of science in Germany during the war. He also
believed that by staying in Germany during the war, he could help individual
German scientists. In fact, he did offer jobs to Jewish scientists when they
were fired from their posts at other universities. As time passed, Heisenberg
found that he was powerless to protect his friends. Heisenberg himself was
personally attacked, and his appointment at the University of Munich was blocked.
For over a year Heisenberg was attacked in the SS newspaper, which referred to
him as a "white Jew." The attack became so threatening that ...

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end.
Heisenberg's most important finding, the Uncertainty Principle is the
corner stone of Quantum Mechanics. However, many advances in Quantum Mechanics
had to be made before Heisenberg found it. Everything started with Rutherford's
model of the atom. Consisting of a positively charged central nucleus,
surrounded by orbiting planetary electrons. Around the same time that
Rutherford was discovering the basic structure of the atom, Plank did some
important work also. Finding that energy from an oscillating particle is
emitted not continuously, but in packets of energy he developed the Quantum
Theory of Radiation. From this came the universal constant h which played a
large role ...

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