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complementarity principle, physical principle enunciated by Niels Bohr in 1928 stating that certain physical concepts are complementary. If two concepts are complementary, an experiment that clearly illustrates one concept will obscure the other complementary one. For example, an experiment that illustrates the particle properties of light will not show any of the wave properties of light. This principle also implies that only certain kinds of information can be gained in a particular experiment. Some other information that is equally important cannot be measured simultaneously and is lost.

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See W. Heisenberg, The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (1930, repr. 1949); N. Bohr, Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (1958); B. L. Cline, Men Who Made a New Physics: Physicists and the Quantum Theory (1987).

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The complementarity principle in the Rome Statute allows the state to conduct its own proceedings relating to the same committed by suspects investigated by the court.

Fact Check: How legally sound is the AL resolution on Sudan's Bashir ... by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)

But rather than an either/or position and the collapse of the industrial gene, what may well happen is the recognition in biology of the complementarity principle that Bohr proposed.

The end of the industrial gene? David Turnbull discusses the complex ... by Turnbull, David / Arena Magazine

2) Bohr's complementarity principle asserts that what we find depends on what we are looking for and how we look.

"Structuring" to make sense of our world by Dawes, Milton / ETC.: A Review of General Semantics

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