Wolfgang Pauli
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.
Career Journey
Background
- 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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"I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think."
"Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these cont…"
"When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of "symbolic images." The first step to thinking is a painted vision of these inner pictures whose origin can…"
"The purely psychological interpretation only apprehends half of the matter. The other half is the revealing of the archetypal basis of the terms actually applied in modern physics. What the final meth…"
"The designation "Jungian Psychology" is actually already unscientific sectarianism. I only acknowledge C. G. Jung's contribution to the general psychology of the unconscious."
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