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- Wer·ner Karl [ver-nuh r kahrl] /ˈvɛr nər kɑrl/, 1901–76, German physicist: Nobel Prize 1932.
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- Werner Karl (ˈvɛrnər karl). 1901–76, German physicist. He contributed to quantum mechanics and formulated the uncertainty principle (1927): Nobel prize for physics 1932
in reference to German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), pioneer of quantum mechanics. His “uncertainty principle” (deduced in 1927) is that an electron may have a determinate position, or a determinate velocity, but not both.
See more at uncertainty principle.
- German physicist who founded the field of quantum mechanics in 1925 and elaborated the uncertainty principle in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1932.