Wolfgang Pauli

<p>Wolfgang Ernst Pauli  was an Austrian <a href="/facts/Theoretical_physicist/Cs2Y12rQ">theoretical physicist</a> and a pioneer of <a href="/facts/Quantum_mechanics/BRc3Mzgr">quantum mechanics</a>. In 1945, after having been nominated by <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein/CNTet8qu">Albert Einstein</a>, Pauli received the <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> "for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the <a href="/facts/Pauli_exclusion_principle/lsBKGeHD">Pauli Principle</a>". The discovery involved <a href="/facts/Spin_(physics)/4Jvp7e8P">spin theory</a>, which is the basis of a theory of the <a href="/facts/Matter/osyc04UN">structure of matter</a>. To preserve the <a href="/facts/Conservation_of_energy/12CdN4Ik">conservation of energy</a> in <a href="/facts/Beta_decay/vxTBlckp">beta decay</a>, he posited the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the <a href="/facts/Neutrino/yGWVfSg2">neutrino</a> by <a href="/facts/Enrico_Fermi/cmYcY15H">Enrico Fermi</a>. The neutrino was detected in 1956.
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Wolfgang Pauli