Der Teil und das Ganze

Werner Heisenberg, born on December 5, 1901, in Würzburg, significantly shaped the physics of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his work in quantum mechanics. His further research marks him as an important pioneer in nuclear and particle physics. He died on February 1, 1976, in Munich.

In these autobiographical conversations, the physicist and Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) recounts the stages of his eventful life. Against the backdrop of the Munich Soviet Republic, the Nazi era, and the new beginning after 1945, his relationships with prominent researchers such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker come to life.