Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli | |
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Pauli in 1945 | |
| Born | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 25 April 1900 |
| Died | 15 December 1958 (aged 58) Zurich, Switzerland |
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Franziska Bertram (m. 1934) |
| Relatives | Hertha Pauli (sister) |
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| Fields | Quantum physics |
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| Thesis | Über das Modell des Wasserstoff-Molekülions (About the model of the hydrogen molecular ion) (1921) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
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His godfather was Ernst Mach. He is not to be confused with Wolfgang Paul, who called Pauli his "imaginary part", a pun with the imaginary unit i. | |
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (/ˈpɔːli/ PAW-lee; German: [ˈpaʊ̯li] ⓘ; 25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian 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, he posited the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the neutrino by Enrico Fermi. The neutrino was detected in 1956.