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Werner Karl Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg 1901 - 1976
The Building of the Bomb
2 March 1965  BBC
Werner Heisenberg and Baron von Weissåcker talk about

   Audiothe issues Germany faced on whether to make an atomic bomb and seeking Bohr's advice  2 min 10

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Werner Karl Heisenberg
German physicist
Awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work on Quantum Mechanics, Heisenberg is best known for his discovery of the uncertainty principle: that it's impossible to precisely measure both the velocity and position of a particle at the same time.

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