Quantenlicht

A hundred years ago, a new science emerged that shattered the boundaries of imagination: quantum physics. Its protagonists: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Werner Heisenberg. They explored the innermost parts of atoms and grappled with a seemingly simple question: What is light? At the same time, electricity illuminated cities for the first time, and cinema and photography conquered the world. What inspired the creativity of these researchers? What ideas led them to wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle? A captivating story about the glories and depths of the 1920s and the dance on the atom.