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 [de] (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.