Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli

theoretical physicist
quantum mechanics
particle physics
🇦🇹Austria
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.

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Lifespan
1900 – 1958
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Born in
Vienna
Educated at
Bundesgymnasium DöblingLudwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Awards
🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg
Doctoral Advisors
🎓 Arnold Sommerfeld
Doctoral Students
📖 John Markus Blatt📖 Armin Thellung📖 Jean-Pierre Blaser📖 Beat Andreas Troesch📖 Philippe Choquard

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