Wolfgang Pauli | |
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Born | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli 25 Apryle 1900 Vienna, Austrick-Hungary |
Dee'd | 15 December 1958 Zurich, Swisserland | (aged 58)
Naitionality | Austrick |
Citizenship | Swisserland |
Alma mater | Ludwig-Maximilians Varsity |
Kent for | Pauli exclusion principle Pauli–Villars regularization Pauli matrices Pauli effect Pauli equation Pauli group Pauli repulsion Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector Coinin 'nae even wrang' |
Awairds | Lorentz Medal (1931) Nobel Prize in Physics (1945) Matteucci Medal (1956) Max Planck Medal (1958) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Varsity o Göttingen Varsity o Copenhagen Varsity o Hamburg ETH Zurich Institute for Advanced Study |
Doctoral advisor | Arnold Sommerfeld |
Other academic advisors | Max Born |
Doctoral students | Nicholas Kemmer Felix Villars |
Ither notable students | Markus Fierz Sigurd Zienau Hans Frauenfelder |
Influences | Ernst Mach Carl Jung |
Influenced | Ralph Kronig |
Notes His godfaither wis Ernst Mach. He is nae to be confused wi Wolfgang Paul, whom Pauli cried his "imaginary part",[1] a pun wi the imaginary unit i. |
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25 Apryle 1900 – 15 December 1958) wis an Austrick-born Swiss theoretical physicist an ane o the pioneers o quantum physics. In 1945, efter haein been nominatit bi Albert Einstein,[2] Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contreibution throu his diskivery o a new law o Naitur, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". The diskivery involved spin theory, that is the basis o a theory o the structur o maiter.