CopenhagenIn 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment, and ended in disaster. |
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... Faelled Park , of course . Where we went so often in the old days . Margrethe But Faelled Park is behind the Institute , four kilometres away from where we live ! Heisenberg I can see the drift of autumn leaves under the street - lamps ...
... Faelled Park on my own one horrible raw February night . It's very late , and as soon as I've turned off into the park I'm completely alone in the darkness . I start to think about what you'd see , if you could train a telescope on me ...
... Faelled Park , during the Berlin air - raid and his internment , and on his ride across Germany , with its near - fatal encounter along the way is based very closely upon the accounts he gave in life . ― The actual words spoken by my ...