Which German physicist is best known for his 'uncertainty principle,' which states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be known exactly?
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Werner Heisenberg
Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics. His uncertainty principle is a fundamental concept in the field.
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