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.

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Wolfgang Pauli
Birth dateApril 25, 1900
Birth nameWolfgang Ernst Pauli
Birth place
Austria-Hungary , Vienna
Nationality
Austria
Citizenship
Switzerland
Date of deathDecember 15, 1958
Place of death
Switzerland , Zürich
Education
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Known for
Pauli effect
Pauli exclusion principle
Pauli matrices
Exchange interaction
Pauli group
Not even wrong
Pauli equation
Pauli–Villars regularization
Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector

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