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Wolfgang Pauli by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-13 Updated 2026-10-24
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Portrait of Wolfgang Pauli
. Bettina Katzenstein / ETH Zürich; ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv, Portr 01042. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) was an influential Austrian theoretical physicist who is best known for his work in quantum mechanics. He is particularly renowned for formulating the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which states that no two identical fermions (such as electrons) can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously. This principle is fundamental to the structure of atoms and explains a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena, including the behavior of electrons in atoms and the stability of matter.