In the summer of 1925, Werner Heisenberg, while recovering from hay fever on the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea, developed the mathematical framework that became quantum mechanics and fundamentally changed our view of the universe.
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“[0:17] A young German scientist, Vera Heisenberg, was famously recovering from a bout of hay fever on the treeless island of Helgoland in the North Sea...he came up with the mathematical framework that today we call quantum mechanics.”
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