Wolfgang Pauli
Scientist
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian-born Swiss theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics.In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle." The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.
Personal facts
Birth date | April 25, 1900 |
Birth name | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli |
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Date of death | December 15, 1958 |
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Education | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Known for | Pauli exclusion principle Pauli–Villars regularization Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector |