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| Modified link of Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Uncertainty Principle. | Oct 13, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - ABC Rewind - 08 | The uncertainty principle. | Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chemistry LibreTexts - Uncertainty Principle. | Aug 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Physical Society - June/July 1925: Werner Heisenberg pioneers quantum mechanics. | Apr 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - The uncertainty principle (PDF). | Mar 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Engineering at Illinois - Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Heisenberg uncertainty principle. | Nov 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Experimental investigation of the uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory and its application to witnessing entanglement. | Jun 22, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics Research at the University of Virginia - The Uncertainty Principle. | Apr 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida - Pressbooks - Probability: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Caltech - Science Exchange - What Is the Uncertainty Principle and Why Is It Important? | Dec 20, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Space.com - Quantum Astronomy: The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. | Sep 21, 2022 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| Added “The uncertainty principle arises from the wave-particle duality.” | May 27, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - University Physics Volume 3 - The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. | Jan 03, 2019 | ||
| Cross-references added. | Dec 19, 2016 | ||
| Added video about the uncertainty principle. | Dec 03, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: HyperPhysics - The Uncertainty Principle. | Apr 09, 2013 | ||
| Added new Web site: History.com - Uncertainty Principle. | Jan 04, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: h2g2 - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. | Apr 11, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 24, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 11, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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