Word: heisenberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Norman Mailer drives around in such a charismatic prose that even when he merely waves at something, it acquires a shine, a lingering phosphorescence. It is the Heisenberg principle of his own egomania...
...Middle East problem is psychological-and TV produced stunning effects in establishing a new psychology in Israel and Egypt, if not in the rest of the area. TV surely influenced the way that Begin and Sadat behaved. It was as if they were governed by something like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which says that merely observing an event subtly alters it. Though both are experienced hams, Sadat and Begin knew (as televisionwise antiwar demonstrators of the '60s chanted) that "the whole world is watching." They both understood quite well the effect they were creating; they consciously used...
...quantum mechanics of the '30s, formulated by Schroedinger, Heisenberg and others, made astonishingly successfuly predictions about such atoms. Physicists turned their attention from the atom to the nucleus...
Died. Werner Heisenberg, 74, iconoclastic German nuclear physicist who joined with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others in repealing some of Newton's laws of physics during the 1920s and 1930s; in Munich. Heisenberg's outstanding contribution, for which he won the Nobel Prize at 31, was the formulation of the uncertainty, or indeterminacy principle. It states that there is an ultimate limit on physical measurement or observation in scientific experiments because the very act of measurement changes the behavior of objects under scrutiny. Unlike many of his scientist friends, Heisenberg remained in Germany under the Nazi regime...
...progress toward building a nuclear bomb. He was also able to learn the whereabouts of labs and reactors and the identities of Hitler's leading atomic scientists. The authors raise the possibility that Berg may even have assassinated a few, and that he had orders to kill Werner Heisenberg during a lecture visit to Switzerland if the great German physicist was discovered to be participating in Hitler's A-bomb race...