Characters in Un verdor terrible

Supporting characters

• Fritz Haber

  A Jewish German chemist, known as the father of chemical warfare, who developed the pesticide Zyklon, unknowingly contributing to its later use in Nazi extermination camps.

• Alexander Grothendieck

  A mathematician whose explorations led him to mystical delirium, social isolation, and madness.

• Albert Einstein

  A renowned physicist who receives a letter from a dying friend with solutions to relativity equations and later famously debated Niels Bohr about quantum mechanics.

• Erwin Schr dinger

  One of the founders of quantum mechanics, who engaged in a struggle with Werner Heisenberg that led to the principle of uncertainty.

• Werner Heisenberg

  One of the founders of quantum mechanics, who engaged in a struggle with Erwin Schr dinger that led to the principle of uncertainty.

• Niels Bohr

  A physicist who debated Albert Einstein about quantum mechanics, prompting Einstein's famous quote about God not playing dice with the universe.