The Atomic Meeting of 1941 in Copenhagen. In the fall of 1941, the scientist Carl Fredrich von Weizsäcker wrote a secret report to Hitler’s army about his and Werner Heisenberg’s visit to Niels Bohr in Nazi occupied Copenhagen: “The technical extraction of energy from uranium fission is not being worked on in Copenhagen…. Obviously, Professor …
In December of 1900, a conservative German scientist named Max Planck wrote a paper that included, according to the Nobel Prize winning Physicist Max Born, “the most revolutionary idea which ever has shaken physics.[i]” For in this paper Planck assumed that light came in little energy packets. Why did he do this and why was …
Max Planck Quantum Theory “Why I Accidentally Created Quantum Mechanics” In December of 1900, a conservative German scientist named Max Planck wrote a paper that included, according to the Nobel Prize winning Physicist Max Born, “the most revolutionary idea which ever has shaken physics.[1]” For in this paper Planck assumed that light came in little …
