On Wolfgang Pauli's most important contributions to physics

2000/10/02 by Norbert Straumann, Straumann, Norbert
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #physics.hist-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0010003

Opening lecture at the symposium: Wolfgang Pauli And Modern Physics, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli's birthday, ETH (Zurich), May 4-6 2000; in German

arxiv created 2000/10/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

After some brief biographical notes, Wolfgang Pauli's main contributions to general relativity, quantum theory, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics are reviewed. A detailed description is given how Pauli descovered - before the advent of the new quantum mechanics - his exclusion principle.

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