Mathematician:Wolfgang Ernst Pauli

Mathematician

Austrian-born Swiss and American theoretical physicist.

One of the pioneers of quantum physics.

Nationality

Austrian born, Swiss-American

History

• Born: 25 April 1900 in Vienna, Austria
• 1945: Received Nobel Prize in Physics for Pauli Exclusion Principle
• Died: 15 December 1958 in Zürich, Switzerland

Theorems and Definitions

• Pauli Exclusion Principle

• Pauli Effect
• Pauli Equation
• Pauli Group
• Pauli Matrix
• Pauli Paramagnetism
• Pauli Repulsion

• Pauli-Lubanski Pseudovector (with Józef Kazimierz Lubański)
• Pauli-Villars Regularization (with Felix Villars)

Results named for Wolfgang Ernst Pauli can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Wolfgang Ernst Pauli can be found here.

Publications

• 1981: Theory of Relativity

Notable Quotes

What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not.

-- to Lev Davidovich Landau

It is not even wrong.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Wolfgang Ernst Pauli": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst FRS (1900-58)