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Wolfgang Pauli

Physicist · born April 25, 1900 · died 1958

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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian 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".

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  1. 26Named professorNovember 1, 1926
  2. 31Received the Lorentz MedalOctober 1, 1931
  3. ~45Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1945
  4. ~56Received the Matteucci Medal1956
  5. 57Received the Max Planck MedalApril 1, 1958

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