Wolfgang Pauli
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Pauli in 1945 | |
| Born | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 25 April 1900 |
| Died | 15 December 1958 (aged 58) Zurich, Switzerland |
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Franziska Bertram (m. 1934) |
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| Fields | Quantum physics |
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| Thesis | Über das Modell des Wasserstoff-Molekülions (1921) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
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| Notable students | See list[2]
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His godfather was Ernst Mach. He is not to be confused with Wolfgang Paul, who called Pauli his "imaginary part",[3] a pun with the imaginary unit i. | |
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (/ˈpɔːli/ PAW-lee;[4] German: [ˈpaʊ̯li] ⓘ; 25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein,[5] Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle".[6] The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter. To preserve the conservation of energy in beta decay, he posited the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the neutrino by Enrico Fermi. The neutrino was detected in 1956.
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peierlswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Wolfgang Pauli - Physics Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ Gerald E. Brown and Chang-Hwan Lee (2006): Hans Bethe and His Physics, World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-256-610-2, p. 338
- ^ "PAULI Definition & Meaning". dictionary.com. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ "Nomination Database: Wolfgang Pauli". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945". The Nobel Foundation.