Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Pauli in 1945
Born	Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900-04-25)25 April 1900 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	15 December 1958(1958-12-15) (aged 58) Zürich, Switzerland
Citizenship	Austria United States Switzerland
Alma mater	University of Munich
Known for	Pauli exclusion principle Pauli matrices Pauli effect Pauli equation Pauli group Pauli repulsion Pauli paramagnetism Pauli's conjecture Pauli–Jordan function Pauli–Jung conjecture Pauli–Lubanski pseudovector Pauli–Villars regularization Fierz–Pauli–Kofink identities Lüders–Pauli theorem Aufbau principle Massive gravity Neutrino Quantum field theory
Relatives	Wolfgang Joseph Pauli [de] (father) Hertha Pauli (sister)
Awards	Lorentz Medal (1931) Nobel Prize in Physics (1945) Franklin Medal (1952) ForMemRS (1953)[1] Matteucci Medal (1956) Max Planck Medal (1958)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics
Institutions	University of Göttingen University of Copenhagen University of Hamburg ETH Zurich Institute for Advanced Study
Thesis	About the Hydrogen Molecular Ion Model[2]  (1921)
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Sommerfeld[2][1]
Other academic advisors	Max Born[3]
Doctoral students	Nicholas Kemmer[2] José Leite Lopes Felix Villars Charles Enz
Other notable students	Markus Fierz Sigurd Zienau Hans Frauenfelder[2]
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Notes
His godfather was Ernst Mach. He is not to be confused with Wolfgang Paul, who called Pauli his "imaginary part",[4] a pun with the imaginary unit i.

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (/ˈpɔːli/;^[5] 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,^[6] 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.