Pauli

[ paw-lee; German pou-lee ]

noun

1. Wolf·gang [woolf, -gang, vawlf, -gahng], 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1945.

Pauli

/ ˈpaʊlɪ; ˈpɔːlɪ /

noun

1. PauliWolfgang19001958MUSAustrianSCIENCE: physicist 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

Pauli

/ pou′lē /

1. 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.

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Pauli presented the document to Roth to get his take on whether she ought to cast her “no” into the tally.

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Pauli and his assistant Bloch visited once a Kabbalistic Jew on a very stormy night.

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Of general guides to the period the best by far are Stubbs and Pauli.

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Edrichus, In libros aliquot Pauli ginetae, &c. London, 1588 (not paged).

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But Pauli was one of those men who set their whole hearts on a problem and follow it out either to success or to the grave.

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The references to this story will best be found in Pauli's Schimpf und Ernst, ed.

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