/oss/taxonomy/term/7341/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