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Biography of Wolfgang Pauli (1900 – 1958)

February23

Pauli was the Austrian Physicist. He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for physics for his ground breaking work in quantum physics. He formulated the Pauli Exclusion Principle. The rule governs the energy state of electrons in an atom. It states that no two electrons in the same atom can have identical energy status, that is, they cannot have identical energy status, that is, they cannot have all the four Quantum members identical. This rule is found, essential in describing the properties of atomic nuclei and the electrical conductivity in metals.

Paul studied at the university off Munich under the renowned Arnold Summerfield. He wrote a big essay on Einstein’s theory of relativity. Thereafter he worked with Neils Bohr in Copenhagen on possible improvements on the prevailing Bohr Summerfield structure of the atom.

Pauli was particular about the three parameters that specified in electron’s orbit. In addition there existed one more which he called the ‘Spin’ of the electron with this he proposed the exclusion principle.

Pauli called a new charge less particle of negligible mass which he predicted, as “neutrino” this particle was detected in 1956.

After the Second World War Pauli worked with Carl Jung in the investigation of the Parallels between analytical physiology and quantum physics.

Pauli had a deep insight into physics. He was nicknamed. “The whip of God”. He was an eloquent speaker. His personal life was in disorder. He had married a Sabaret singer. He was drinking heavily. Sometimes he was more philosophical. His mother had poisoned herself. He was a critic. Pauli died early.

Einstein read Paul’s 250 pages essay on the theory of relativity and wrote; “No one studying this nature, grandly conceived work could believe that the author is a man of twenty one”!.

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