Wolfgang Pauli

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Nobel laureate in Physics human theoretical physicist

Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian-Swiss theoretical physicist renowned for formulating the Pauli exclusion principle and making foundational contributions to quantum mechanics.

Aliases (2)

Pauli ×1
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate in Physics → human → theoretical physicist →
awardReceived	Max Planck Medal → Nobel Prize in Physics →
birthName	Wolfgang Ernst Pauli →
citizenship	Austria → Switzerland →
countryOfBirth	Austria-Hungary →
countryOfDeath	Switzerland →
dateOfBirth	1900-04-25 →
dateOfDeath	1958-12-15 →
doctoralAdvisor	Arnold Sommerfeld →
educatedAt	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich NERFINISHED → University of Munich NERFINISHED →
employer	ETH Zurich → Institute for Advanced Study → University of Hamburg NERFINISHED → University of Munich NERFINISHED →
familyName	Pauli →
fieldOfWork	quantum mechanics → theoretical physics →
givenName	Wolfgang →
influenced	Felix Bloch → Victor Weisskopf → Werner Heisenberg →
influencedBy	Albert Einstein → Arnold Sommerfeld → Niels Bohr →
knownFor	Pauli exclusion principle → Pauli matrices → Pauli principle → Pauli–Villars regularization → prediction of the neutrino → spin theory → spin–statistics theorem →
languageSpoken	German →
memberOf	American Physical Society → Pontifical Academy of Sciences → Royal Society →
NobelPrizeFor	discovery of the Exclusion Principle →
NobelPrizeYear	1945 →
notableConcept	Pauli exclusion principle → Pauli matrices → neutrino hypothesis →
placeOfBirth	Vienna →
placeOfDeath	Zürich NERFINISHED →
positionHeld	professor at ETH Zurich → professor of theoretical physics →
religion	Roman Catholicism →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Arnold Sommerfeld → Niels Bohr Institute →	notableStudent
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics →	associatedWith
Wolfgang Pauli ("Wolfgang Ernst Pauli") →	birthName
Victor F. Weisskopf →	collaboratedWith
Wolfgang Pauli ("Pauli") →	familyName
Pauli exclusion principle →	formulatedBy
ETH Zurich →	hasAlumni
University of Hamburg →	hasNobelLaureateAffiliation
ETH Zurich →	hasNotableAlumni
Max Planck Medal →	hasRecipient
Niels Bohr →	influenced
Pauli exclusion principle →	namedAfter
École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich →	notableAlumni