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Controversies and Debates in the History of Science and Technology
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What was the name of the debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr about the interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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The Copenhagen Interpretation
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The Copenhagen Interpretation is a widely accepted interpretation of quantum mechanics that was developed by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in the 1920s. It is based on the idea that the wave function of a particle does not describe the particle itself, but rather a probability distribution of possible outcomes of measurements.