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Wolfgang Pauli

1900 - 1958

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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli ( 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Pauli is the 62nd most popular physicist (down from 39th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Austria (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Physicist.

Wolfgang Pauli is most famous for his exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same quantum state.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 62 out of 851. Before him are Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, and Leo Szilard. After him are Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Born, Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, and Léon Foucault.

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Among people born in 1900, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 10. Before him are Erich Fromm, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Luis Buñuel. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Gladwyn Jebb, and Dennis Gabor. Among people deceased in 1958, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 3. Before him are Pope Pius XII, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Imre Nagy, Roger Martin du Gard, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Kurt Alder, Tyrone Power, Faisal II of Iraq, Clinton Davisson, Ernest Lawrence, and John B. Watson.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 54 out of 1,424. Before him are Friedrich Hayek (1899), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Anton Webern (1883), Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833), Otto von Habsburg (1912), and Pope Gregory V (972). After him are Alois Hitler (1837), Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Maria Carolina of Austria (1752), Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), and Ludwig Boltzmann (1844).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 3. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Lise Meitner (1878). After him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904).

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