Toc: Contents Preface vii PART ONE Young Werner 1 1 Family Matters 3 2 A Great War 20 3 Gymnasiast 38 4 Red and White 50 5 Pathfinding 65 PART TWO Quantum Mechanics 89 6 Sommerfeld’s Seminar 91 7 Cutting to the Core 110 8 Fair-Haired Farm Boy 131 9 Principles and Politics 155 10 Quantum Multiplying 181 11 Quantum Mechanic 204 12 Certain of Uncertainty 226 13 Spreading the Spirit 247 14 Fresh Fruits 267 PART THREE The Lonely Years 297 15 A New Regime 299 16 Herr Professor 314 17 Political Science 331 18 Sommerfeld’s Successor 346 19 An Unending Loneliness 365 20 Himmler’s Henchmen 379 21 German Physics 397 part four A World at War 415 22 A Fine Line 417 23 A Copenhagen Interpretation 433 24 An Ordered Reality 447 25 Target Number One 475 26 Reconstructing 501 27 Candles at the Door 523 Appendix A: Chronology 547 Appendix B: Heisenberg’s Textbooks and Readings at the Maximilians-Gymnasium 553 Notes 555 Name Index 643 Subject Index 655