Historical Figure
Wolfgang Pauli
1900–1958
Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist (1900–1958)
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Death
1958 December 15, 1958 →Biography
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian–Swiss 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.
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German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
February 23 →Die US-amerikanischen Forscher Clyde L. Cowan und Frederick Reines informieren telegrafisch den österreichischen Physiker Wolfgang Pauli über den ihnen gelungenen Nachweis des Neutrinos, das Pauli als Elementarteilchen mehr als zwei Jahrzehnte zuvor hypothetisch aufgezeigt hatte.
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