/oss/taxonomy/term/5414/all en /oss/article/medical-history/uncertainty-what-happened-when-heisenberg-met-bohr <p>It isn’t often that the subject matter of a play on Broadway is science. “Copenhagen” opened on Broadway in 2000 after a run in London’s West End. Its focus was a 1941 meeting in Bohr’s Copenhagen house between Danish physicist Niels Bohr and his former protégé German physicist Werner Heisenberg. The meeting was an informal one so there is no record of the actual discussion, but when questioned later, the two parties had different memories of the dialogue.</p> Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:39:11 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 9809 at /oss /oss/article/technology-history/do-you-expect-me-talk-no-mr-bond-i-expect-you-die <p>That’s the classic exchange between British Secret Service agent James Bond and archvillain Auric Goldfinger as a laser beam begins to inch up the gold-plated table on which Bond is bound, threatening his private parts. And it was in that iconic scene in the 1964 film, “Goldfinger,” that audiences first learned about lasers.</p> Thu, 27 May 2021 18:33:43 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8746 at /oss