Werner Heisenberg's main contribution to the development of quantum theory was

A) the nonlocality principle.
B) his explanation of the photoelectric effect, in terms of photons.
C) a method for predicting the position at which electrons or other particles will strike the viewing screen in such experiments as the electron double-slit experiment.
D) a method for predicting the overall statistical patterns that appear in the electron double-slit experiment and other experiments using microscopic particles.
E) the uncertainty principle.


E

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