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Hei⋅sen⋅berg

  [hahy-zuhn-burg; Ger. hahy-zuhn-berk]
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–noun
Wer⋅ner Karl  [ver-nuhr kahrl] , 1901–76, German physicist: Nobel prize 1932.
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Hei·sen·berg   (hī'zən-bûrg', -běrk')   
German physicist and a founder of quantum mechanics. He won a 1932 Nobel Prize for his uncertainty principle.
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Heisenberg 
in ref. to Ger. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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