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Wolfgang Pauli

Physicist, Nobel prize winner (1900–1958)

  • Fame70.9
  • Momentum29.6
  • Academics rank#145
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  • Fame70.9
  • Momentum29.6
  • Academics rank#145
  • Wikipedia24.8K
Lived 1900–1958, aged 58United States
United States flagUnited StatesAcademicsAcademic
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    93 languages
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  • Era
    1900–1958
    Aged 58
  • Awards
    9
    recognised works
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Updated 2026-06-21

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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Academics
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Category rank
#145
Last updated
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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…

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Wolfgang Pauli
said · May 1958
The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
— to Jagdish Mehra, in Berkeley, California (May 1958), as quoted in The Historical Development of Quantum Theory (2000) by Jagdish Mehra
Wolfgang Pauli
said · 1958
This is to show the world that I can paint like Titian. [A big drawing of a rectangle] Only technical details are missing.
— In a letter to George Gamow, 1958, commenting on Werner Heisenberg's claim to a journalist that Pauli and Heisenberg have found a unified
Wolfgang Pauli
said · 1956
The designation "Jungian Psychology" is actually already unscientific sectarianism. I only acknowledge C. G. Jung's contribution to the general psychology of the unconscious.
— Letter To Carl Alfred Meier (the president of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich) in (1956)
Wolfgang Pauli
said · 13 Oct 1951
It is always the older that emanates the new one.
— Letter to Markus Fierz (13 October 1951)
Wolfgang Pauli
said · 25 Dec 1950
Both of us [seem] to agree that the future of Jung's ideas is not with [psycho-] therapy... but with a unitarian, holistic concept of nature and the position of man in it.
— Letter to Markus Fierz regarding Carl Jung's ideas (25 December 1950)
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Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
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Category
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Profile type
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Status
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Born
April 25, 1900
Died
December 15, 1958
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