Werner Karl Heisenberg
Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901–76), German mathematical physicist generally regarded as the founder of quantum mechanics. His uncertainty principle (1927) overturned traditional physics. He received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1932.
See also: Quantum mechanics.
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