Pauli

American  

[paw-lee, pou-lee] / ˈpɔ li, ˈpaʊ li /

noun

1. Wolfgang 1900–58, Austrian physicist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1945.

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Pauli British  

/ ˈpaʊlɪ, ˈpɔːlɪ /

noun

1. 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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Pauli Scientific  

/ 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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Example Sentences

Leverkusen lacked fluidity but were too good for struggling St Pauli, who have now won just one of their past nine games and sit second-last in the Bundesliga.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

"St Pauli didn't have the quality to make things dangerous for us today, because we really didn't play a good game," Leverkusen captain Robert Andrich told Germany's ZDF network.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

"What were the justifications for the boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1980s?" said Gottlich, who is also the president of Bundesliga club St Pauli.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

Dortmund's hierarchy were not happy about what went on at St Pauli, even though Kehl tried to play down the post-match incident.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

A quantum-mechanical law called the Pauli exclusion principle keeps matter from squishing itself into a point.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife