Awards & Winners

Wolfgang Pauli

Date of Birth 25-April-1900
Place of Birth Vienna
(Austria)
Nationality Switzerland, United States of America, Austria
Also know as Wolfgang Ernst Pauli
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, 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.

Awards by Wolfgang Pauli

Check all the awards nominated and won by Wolfgang Pauli.

1945


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle.)