Heisenberg's role
In the years following world war 1, the German economy was in ruins, for young Germans like Verner Heisenberg, the country's defeat is shattering.
Heisenberg pours himself into his chosen field, a new science called quantum physics: the physics of the atom.
He publishes a paper on the limitations of what we can know about how particles behave at the subatomic level...it is called the uncertainty principle.
It for ever changed how quantum physics is understood.
In 1933 Heisenberg receives a nobel prize; making him one of the youngest winners of alltime and it would forever change the course of his life.
He's one of the most important German scientist.
Just as a new party is coming into power in Germany,
The national socialists.
Hitler built Germany to fierce power and has begun his conquest of Europe
A group of Germans made a singular breakthrough; claimed they have split the uranium atom, a nuclear reaction.
A nuclear reaction releases more energy than a chemical reaction, a much as 50million times more.
Heisenberg thinks it's possible to create a weapon of mass destruction, it was still a theoretical question then but Heisenberg knows it won't stay like that for long....
He takes his claims to the Adolf Hitler and he pledged his allegiance to him... making him one of the most dangerous men on Earth...
Heisenberg was awarded a contract to provide the Germans with atomic bombs in the war.
He was able to get excess neutrons in his experimental pile, proof that he's able to split the nucleus of multiple atoms...the first step in creating an atomic chain reaction...
He was able to carry out further test but on an unfaithful day, the dangerous nuclear chain reaction exploded burning up his lab giving the Americans time to make their own bomb. . . Hitler was furious and kept less money in the business... Later Heisenberg was captured by the allied forces and after the war he was made to preach against hilter and remain a nice, peaceful scientists teaching his Quantum Mechanics till his death...