Wolfgang Pauli - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1945
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Wolfgang Pauli

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1945
for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle
Citizenship
United States United States Switzerland Switzerland Austria Austria
Languages
English, German
date of birth
4/25/1900
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
12/15/1958
place of death
Zurich
Lived
58 years
educated at
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: doctorate
    • start time: 1918
    • end time: July 1921
  • Bundesgymnasium Döbling
    • academic major: physics
    • academic degree: licentiate
    • end time: 1918
member of
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 8/22/1958
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/23/1953
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1950
  • American Physical Society
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
employer
  • ETH Zurich
    • end time: 1958
    • start time: 1946
  • Princeton University
    • end time: 1946
    • start time: 1940
  • Purdue University
    • end time: 1942
    • start time: 1942
  • University of Michigan
    • end time: 1941
    • start time: 1941
  • ETH Zurich
    • end time: 1940
    • start time: 1928
  • University of Copenhagen Niels Bohr Institute
    • start time: 1922
    • end time: 1923
  • University of Göttingen
    • end time: 1922
    • start time: 1921
  • University of Hamburg
    • start time: 1923
    • end time: 1928
notable work
  • Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector
  • Pauli equation
  • Pauli group
  • Pauli exclusion principle
  • Pauli effect
  • Pauli matrices
  • Pauli–Villars regularization
doctoral student
  • Armin Thellung
  • Beat Andreas Troesch
  • Philippe Choquard
  • Andreas Valkó
  • Charles Enz
  • Nicholas Kemmer
  • John Markus Blatt
  • Jean-Pierre Blaser
  • Max Robert Schafroth
  • Paul Güttinger
  • Alexander Rusterholz
  • Hans Aeppli
  • Saleh Selim-Younis
  • Maurice Pryce
  • Igal Talmi
  • Amos de-Shalit
  • Felix Villars
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • quantum mechanics
  • particle physics
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