Inner Exile: Recollections of a life with Werner Heisenberg

In the years between 1924 and 1927 some of the deepest riddles that nature posed to us were solved: how to understand and describe the structure of atoms and, therefore, the structure and behavior of matter, since all matter is made of atoms. It was a truly revolutionary step, because it required the abandonment of many old concepts and pre­ judices and the creation of new concepts and a new language called quantum mechanics, in order to understand and describe what happens within and betwe...