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Pauli, Wolfgang (1900–1958)


Wolfgang Pauli
Austrian-born physicist awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Pauli exclusion principle, that no two fermions in a system can have the same four quantum numbers. In terms of the atom, this means that at most two electrons may occupy the same orbital (the two having opposite spin).


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