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Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

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The uncertainty principle and the concept of the wave nature of matter were proposed by _and ___ respectively.
1. De Broglie, Heisenberg
2. Heisenberg; de Broglie
3. Heisenberg; Einstein
4. Einstein; de Broglie

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In 1927, Werner Heisenberg presented a principle known as Heisenberg uncertainty principle which states as : "It is impossible to measure simultaneously the exact position and exact momentum of a body as small as an electron."
In 1924. a French physicist, Louis De Broglie suggested that if the nature of light is both that of a particle and of a wave, then this dual behavior should be true for the matter also.

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λ = \frac{h}{m v}

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