Volume 50, Number 13 · August 14, 2003
A Letter from Copenhagen
By Thomas Powers
A letter from the German physicist Werner Heisenberg to his wife, Elisabeth, about his meeting with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in September 1941, which is printed below, was released by the estate of Elisabeth Heisenberg on June 5. Precisely what Heisenberg said to anger his old friend Bohr has been an open question ever since Heisenberg told his wife and friends that the meeting had gone awry.
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