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In the late 1930s, he refused an opportunity to flee to the US but stayed in Germany during the war. He was interned at Farm Hall in Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, England, with other leading German scientists. Last updated  11 June 2019

Physics and Philosophy: Werner Heisenberg

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He was raised a Luteran Christian and retained an interest in religious matters throughout his life.

Heisenberg later wrote:-

I learned optimism from Sommerfeld, mathematics at Göttingen, and physics from Bohr.

From September 1924 until May 1925 he worked, with the support of a Rockefeller grant, with Niels Bohr at the University of Copenhagen, returning for the summer of 1925 to Göttingen.

The problem was that in the world of electrons, atoms elements did not fit into neat mechanical laws. He presented his thought on this subject in the introduction to the Unified Field Theory of Elementary Particles (1966). Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project. Boston: Birkhäuser, 1984. Heisenberg responded by defending himself from increasingly vitriolic attacks in Nazi supporting newspapers.

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This theory was discussed at length at an international conference in 1958.

After the war he was arrested by Alsos, a secret mission that followed the advancing Allied forces in Europe to determine the progress of Germany's atomic bomb project.

Heisenberg developed new theories for explaining the behaviour of sub-atomic particles. He spent his spare time playing chess, which he did to a very high standard, and also read mathematics texts he had taken with him. He was too young to fight in the First World War by in 1919, briefly served in the Freikorps to fight against the Communist revolution in Bavaria.

In private, however, they expressed their lack of religious beliefs, and in particular they brought up their children to follow Christian ethics but showed total disbelief in the historical side of Christianity. He declined the offer of free accommodation from the Foundation, preferring to live with his parents.

Elizabeth was only 22 when they met, Heisenberg was 35. He recovered, despite the problems of obtaining suitable food, in time to begin his university studies. In 1927, he was appointed head of theoretical physics at the University of Leipzig.