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Werner Heisenberg
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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
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1. Werner Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
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Werner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist, one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics and a principal scientist in the German nuclear program during World War II.
1. Werner Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
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Born: 1901-12-05
1. Werner Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
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Born: 1901-12-05
1. Werner Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
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Died: 1976-02-01
1. Werner Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
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Died: 1976-02-01
Uncertainty Principle (Wikipedia)
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First introduced in 1927 by German physicist Werner Heisenberg, the formal inequality relating the standard deviation of position and the standard deviation of momentum was derived by Earle Hesse Kennard later that year and by Hermann Weyl in 1928.
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