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complementarity
A physical principle and philosophical thesis proposed in 1927 by Niels Bohr, seeking to make intelligible the then newly-developed wave mechanics. Bohr recognized that atomic and subatomic systems could only be described and understood in terms of a series of complemtary partial views.
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• ATOMIC AND NUCLEAR PHYSICS
• PARTICLE PHYSICS
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