The Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
Awarded on: 1945-11-15
"for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
Wolfgang Pauli
Born: 1900-04-25 in Vienna, Austria
Gender: male
Field: Austrian–Swiss theoretical physicist (1900–1958)
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.