Werner Heisenberg: Physics and Philosophy. The Revolution in Modern Science

Physics has recently opened up vast new fields of knowledge making it necessary for us to modify some of our most basic philosophical and scientific concepts the pillars of cultures and civilizations. This, says F. S. C. Northrop in hiss introduction to the present volume, is 'the major event of today's and tomorrow's world'.
Werner Heisenberg was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1901. He was educated at the universities of Munich and Gottingen and in 1932 was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in theoretical atomic physics.- He is now Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich. Author of many books, his memories of aJife in science have recently appeared under the title Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (World Perspectives No. 23).