Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle.”

Austrian physicist. Pauli was born in Vienna on April 25, 1900. He was educated at the University of Munich, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1921. From 1923 to 1928, he was a lecturer at Hambourg then he was appointed Professorship of Theoretical Physics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. During 1935-1936, he was visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Purdue University. He was elected to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at Princeton in 1940. Pauli died in Zurich on December 15, 1958.