1925 On the windswept island of Helgoland, Werner Heisenberg carries out a calculation that treats the electron’s characteristics not as single values, but as tables of values. In this ...

The scientists included Otto Hahn, who in 1938 had discovered that uranium could fission and who had received the Nobel Prize in 1944; Werner Heisenberg, one of the inventors of quantum mechanics ...

YEAR. BECAUSE IT IS ALL ABOUT THE HAT. IT’S ALL THAT IS THE SIGNATURE PIECE. THAT IS, THE STATEMENT PIECE. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE HAT. YOU CAN’T COME TO THE PREAKNESS WITHOUT ONE. WHETHER IT BE ...

The story spans two worlds: the one we know, and an alternate reality in which Werner Heisenberg never visits the island of Helgoland – a trip that played a key role in the development of quantum ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the likes of Werner Heisenberg and John von Neumann – but whose contributions to ...

You might say it all started with a spot of hay fever. In June 1925, a young physicist named Werner Heisenberg retreated to the barren island of Helgoland in the North Sea, seeking respite from ...

This explanation—with contributions from notable physicists Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and others—describes a particle existing in what’s called a superposition, or existing in all ...

Hats Off to Love is a new Hallmark Channel movie that looks to spice up your Kentucky Derby with a horse and hat-fueled romance. Ginna Claire Mason plays a struggling milliner named Stella who ...

Every traveler knows sunscreen is essential for any trip. But experts also recommend supplementing lotions and creams with a good sun hat. The Skin Cancer Foundation says the overwhelming ...

Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Niels Bohr and the theories of Max Planck (“Taste-Testing a Recipe for the Cosmos: Physicist Blends One Part Relativity, One Part Quantum Mechanics,” The ...

Women wait to compete in the hat contest Saturday at Kentucky Derby on Worth. / Meghan McCarthy / USA TODAY NETWORK The 151st Kentucky Derby takes place this Saturday. As the first leg of the ...