![]() ![]() Copenhagen delves deep into a 1941 meeting that purportedly ends their friendship. Once strong during a time of peace and scientific prosperity in the 1920s, their relationship strains and breaks due to the politics and ethics of World War II as Heisenberg works for Nazi weapons development and Bohr, who is half Jewish, lives in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Together, the two invented quantum mechanics, a theory that revolutionized not just atomic physics or even subdivisions of philosophy but the manner in which people perceive the universe.īut Frayn does not principally concern the play with these rather, he focuses on one aspect of the relationship between these two men. Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play, Copenhagen, explores the relationship between Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenburg, two of the most significant physicists-and indeed intellects in general-of the twentieth century. ![]()
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