!!!Pauli, Wolfgang

b. Vienna, April 25, 1900, 
d. Zurich (Switzerland), Dec. 15, 1958, physicist, awarded the Nobel 
Prize in 1945 for the discovery of the principle of quantum theory 
named after him, brother of Hertha  Pauli. His doctoral thesis (1921) 
proved that the theory of quantum physics at that time considered 
valid was incorrect. In cooperation with W. Heisenberg, M. Born and N. 
Bohr developed matrix mechanics were, which P. used in 1926 for the 
calculation of the hydrogen spectrum. 1924 discovered the exclusion 
principle (P.-Principle), for which he received the Nobel prize for 
physics in 1945. 1926-1928 professor in Hamburg, then in Zurich, 
1940-1946 in the USA, 1946 returned to Switzerland. 1931 solved the 
problem of beta-decay by positing the existence of the neutrino, which 
was not proved by experiments until 1956. From 1953 P. had a 
much-acknowledged discussion with W. Heisenberg about his unified 
theory on matter ("world formula").

!Works
Die allgemeinen Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik, 1990 (new 
edition); Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, 
Heisenberg und anderen, 1979; Das Gewissen der Physik, ed. by 
C. P. Enz and H. v. Meyenn, 1988.

!Literature
K. v. Laurikainen, The Message of the Atoms. Essays 
on W. P. and the Unspeakable, 1997; E. P. Fischer, An den 
Grenzen des Denkens. W. P. - ein Nobelpreistraeger ueber die 
Nachtseiten der Wissenschaft, 2000; NOeB.



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