Pauli

[ paw-lee; German pou-lee ]

/ ˈpɔ li; German ˈpaʊ li /

noun

Wolf·gang

[woo lf-gang; German vawlf-gahng] /ˈwʊlf gæŋ; German ˈvɔlf gɑŋ/, 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1945.

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Examples from the Web for pauli

Pauli presented the document to Roth to get his take on whether she ought to cast her “no” into the tally.
The Kaffeehaus Canon|George Prochnik|December 31, 2010|DAILY BEAST
This was the first entire family which Pauli baptized at Amsterdam.
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ|Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
The Pauli episode is valuable in supplying light on certain defects in Butler's intellectual composition.
Aspects and Impressions|Edmund Gosse
So Pauli followed out this problem though it took twenty years.
The Great American Fraud|Samuel Hopkins Adams

When Pauli began to earn a comfortable income at the bar he treated Butler with scorn, though accepting money and food from him.
Idling in Italy|Joseph Collins
The Pauli Effect is a different thing entirely, a psionic effect.
Psichopath|Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for pauli

Pauli

/ (ˈpɔːlɪ, ˈpaʊlɪ) /

noun

Wolfgang (ˈvɒlfˌɡæŋ). 1900–58, US physicist, born in Austria. He formulated the exclusion principle (1924) and postulated the existence of the neutrino (1931), later confirmed by Fermi: Nobel prize for physics 1945

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Science definitions for pauli

Pauli

[ pou′lē ]

Wolfgang 1900-1958

Austrian-born American physicist who in 1924 formulated a principle stating that no two fermions, such as two electrons in an atom, can have identical energy, mass, and angular momentum at the same time. This principle is known as the Pauli Exclusion Principle. He also hypothesized the existence of the neutrino in 1931, which was confirmed in 1956.