In an interview conducted by the digital newspaper El Mostrador, Dr. Miguel Kiwi (National Prize for Exact Sciences in 2007 and researcher at the CEDENNA Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology) spoke about "the lights and shadows" of Warner Heisenberg, a pioneering physicist of quantum mechanics and who was in charge of the scientific investigation of the Uranium Project of the German atomic bomb during World War II.
Kiwi, who wrote the prologue to Heisenberg's book “Changes in the Fundamentals of Physics (Editorial Fe de Errata), addressed the complex relationship of this physicist with Nazism and with the scientific community.
During the interview, the CEDENNA researcher addressed nuclear physics and some anecdotes such as the time he was able to meet Oppenheimer. “It was in the year 62. I was working on the third floor of the Engineering School and I knew that Oppenheimer was coming but I had no idea that he could appear at any moment. I look to the side and he was there (...) he began to ask me things and I froze, I don't remember what I told him or what he told me, but the impression he made on me was the relationship between his head and his body, he had a very girl compared to her body," he said with a laugh.
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