Wolfgang Pauli

Also known as Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

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Wolfgang Pauli was a physicist born on April 25, 1900, and died on December 15, 1958. He received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 3.

His work is recognized in several collections. These include the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1945
“for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle”

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Instance of: human
Given name: Ernst
Gender: male
Citizenship: Austria
Place of birth: Vienna
Place of death: Zurich
Sibling: Hertha Pauli
Occupation: physicist
Educated at: Bundesgymnasium Döbling
Employer: ETH Zurich
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: German
Religion: Catholicism
Doctoral advisor: Arnold Sommerfeld
Student of: Max Born
Doctoral student: Igal Talmi
Field of work: particle physics
Image: ETH-BIB-Pauli, Wolfgang.tif

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member of: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Commons category: Wolfgang Pauli
cause of death: pancreatic cancer
birth name: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
date of birth: 1900-04-25
date of death: 1958-12-15
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different from: Wolfgang Paul
student: Hans Frauenfelder
Erdős number: 3
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Wolfgang Pauli
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
lifestyle: mysticism
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
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interested in: physics
municipal affiliation of a Swiss national: Zollikon

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Encyclopedic overview

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) 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.

To preserve the conservation of energy in beta decay, Pauli proposed the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the "neutrino" by Enrico Fermi, in 1930. Neutrinos were first detected in 1956.

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