Werner Heisenberg
A) predicted the positron from relativistic quantum mechanics (1928).
B) set the limits on the probability of measurement accuracy (1927).
C) developed a wave equation for matter waves (1926).
D) was the first to produce X-ray-like diffraction patterns of electrons passing through thin metal foil (1927).
E) suggested the existence of matter waves (1924).

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Heisenberg is best known for formulating the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in 1927, which sets fundamental limits on the accuracy with which certain pairs of physical properties, such as position and momentum, can be simultaneously known.