Sorry if I jumped the gun, for some reason the article just pushed my buttons. :)
Have you ever read "Heisenberg's War?" It is a book that makes a case for Heisenberg stopping the Nazi bomb project by sending it down dead end paths until the High Command got fed up and put it on the back burner. I always thought he has gotten a raw deal from history's judgement.
Sorry if I jumped the gun, for some reason the article just pushed my buttons. :)
Understood. We've all had that experience!
Have you ever read "Heisenberg's War?" It is a book that makes a case for Heisenberg stopping the Nazi bomb project by sending it down dead end paths until the High Command got fed up and put it on the back burner. I always thought he has gotten a raw deal from history's judgement.
I need to read that. At the moment, I lean towards the view that Heisenberg shouldn't be completely cleansed of his Nazi connections. Why? Because of Niels Bohr's complete break with Heisenberg after Heisenberg's 1941 visit to Bohr in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Bohr was among the most gentle, compassionate and philosophical of men; for him to have broken with his former student and colleague so abruptly and so totally suggests that, at least in Bohr's eyes, Heisenberg was more of a collaborator with the Nazis than he, Heisenberg, wanted to let on after the war.
I'd like to be convinced that I'm wrong about this, but unless more archival material turns up, we may never know what really happened.