Wolfgang Pauli
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| Born | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 25 April 1900 Vienna, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 15 December 1958 (aged 58) Zurich, Switzerland |
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Austria-Hungary Switzerland United States |
| Nationality | Austria |
| Fields | Physics |
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University of Göttingen University of Copenhagen University of Hamburg ETH Zurich Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | Ludwig-Maximilians University |
| Thesis | Über das Modell des Wasserstoff-Molekülions (1921) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
| Other academic advisors | Max Born |
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| Influenced | Ralph Kronig |
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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.
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958) was an Austrian-born Swiss and American theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, 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.
Pauli was born in Vienna to a chemist Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (né Wolf Pascheles, 1869–1955) and his wife Bertha Camilla Schütz; his sister was Hertha Pauli, the writer and actress. Pauli's middle name was given in honor of his godfather, physicist Ernst Mach. Pauli's paternal grandparents were from prominent Jewish families of Prague; his great-grandfather was the Jewish publisher Wolf Pascheles. Pauli's father converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism shortly before his marriage in 1899. Pauli's mother, Bertha Schütz, was raised in her own mother's Roman Catholic religion; her father was Jewish writer Friedrich Schütz. Pauli was raised as a Roman Catholic, although eventually he and his parents left the Church. He is considered to have been a deist and a mystic.
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