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

"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

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

Elsewhere, Augsburg beat St Pauli 2-1 and Werder Bremen's Keke Topp snatched a point with a splendid late goal at home in a 1-1 draw with Borussia Moenchengladbach.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

In his first outing against St Pauli, Bellingham essentially played as a number 10 behind two strikers.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

Discovered in the mid-1920s by German physicist Wolfgang Pauli, the exclusion principle states, roughly, that no two things can be in the same place at the same time.

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