# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:24.627Z

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description: "A theoretical physicist who told the universe it couldn't put two electrons in the same quantum state — and turned out to be right. The exclusion principle bearing his name underpins why matter has structure at all, why atoms don't collapse, why you're solid instead of a smear of particles."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was born 25 April 1900, an Austrian who would become Swiss and help invent quantum mechanics from the inside. In 1945, nominated by Einstein, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the exclusion principle — the rule, grounded in spin theory, that explains the architecture of matter itself. Five years after that triumph, he'd already made another leap: in 1930, troubled by energy going missing in beta decay, he proposed a tiny neutral particle to balance the books. Fermi named it the neutrino. It took until 1956, two years before Pauli's death on 15 December 1958, for anyone to actually catch one.