In Uncertainty, the first definitive biography of physicist Werner Heisenberg, author David Cassidy explores ethical issues that scientists face in an age of high-tech weapons, resurgent nationalist fervor and mass psychological manipulation.
Himself a physicist and historian, Cassidy documents Heisenberg's development of the "uncertainty principle" within a larger adjoining matter of the Nobel Prize winner's personal, political and scientific background.
The writing of the biography had an added significance for Cassidy, who is
