What is Wolfgang Pauli?
{{nobelprize|Physics}} [[File:Wolfgang Pauli ETH-Bib Portr 01042.jpg|thumb|Wolfgang Pauli]] '''Wolfgang Ernst Pauli''' (25 April 1900 in [[Vienna]] – 15 December 1958 in [[Zurich]]) was an [[Austrian]]-American-Swiss [[theoretical physicist]] known for his work on [[Spin (physics)|spin theory]], and for the discovery of the [[pauli exclusion principle]], which is important for the structure of matter and the whole of [[chemistry]]. He was given the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1945. Pauli was of [[Jewish]] descent.<ref>[http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/11/5/001 iopscience.iop.org]</ref><ref>[http://www.jinfo.org/Physicists.html www.jinfo.org]</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{Nobel Prize in Physics}} {{authority control}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pauli, Wolfgang}} [[Category:1900 births]] [[Category:1958 deaths]] [[Category:Austrian Jews]] [[Category:Jewish American academics]] [[Category:Jewish American scientists]] [[Category:Swiss Jews]] [[Category:Jewish Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Scientists from Vienna]] [[Category:Swiss physicists]] [[Category:American theoretical physicists]] [[Category:Austrian Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:American Nobel Prize winners]] [[Category:Former Roman Catholics]]