Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Pauli in 1945
Born
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

(1900-04-25)25 April 1900
Died15 December 1958(1958-12-15) (aged 58)
Zürich, Switzerland
CitizenshipAustria
United States
Switzerland
Alma materUniversity of Munich
Known for
RelativesWolfgang Joseph Pauli (father)
Hertha Pauli (sister)
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
University of Copenhagen
University of Hamburg
ETH Zurich
Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis About the Hydrogen Molecular Ion Model[2]  (1921)
Doctoral advisorArnold Sommerfeld[2][1]
Other academic advisorsMax Born[3]
Doctoral students
Other notable students
Signature
Notes
His godfather was Ernst Mach. He is not to be confused with Wolfgang Paul, who called Pauli his "imaginary part",[5] a pun with the imaginary unit i.

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (/ˈpɔːli/;[6] German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈpaʊli]; 25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein,[7] 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.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference peierls was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c d Wolfgang Pauli at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Max Born". Max-Born-Institut. Retrieved 9 November 2020. 1922...Wolfgang Pauli and Werner Heisenberg are research assistants of Max Born
  4. ^ Cecilia Jarlskog (2014): Portrait of Gunnar Källén , Springer, [1]
  5. ^ Gerald E. Brown and Chang-Hwan Lee (2006): Hans Bethe and His Physics, World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-256-610-2, p. 338
  6. ^ "Pauli". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  7. ^ "Nomination Database: Wolfgang Pauli". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 17 November 2015.

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