Pauli Wolfgang

Pau·li

 (pou′lē), Wolfgang 1900-1958.

Austrian-born American physicist. He won a 1945 Nobel Prize for formulating the exclusion principle.

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Pau·li

(pou′lē), Wolfgang 1900-1958.

Austrian-born American physicist. He formulated a principle stating that no two electrons in an atom can have identical energy, masses, and angular momentums at the same time. This principle is known as the Pauli Exclusion Principle.

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