Wolfgang Ernst Friedrich Pauli (1900 - 1958)

Born 25 Apr 1900 in Wien, Österreich unter der Enns, Österreich-Ungarn

Ancestors

Husband of Käthe Margarethe Deppner — married 23 Dec 1929 (to 29 Nov 1930) in Berlin, Germany

Husband of Franziska (Bertram) Pauli — married 4 Apr 1934 in London, England, United Kingdom

Died 15 Dec 1958 at age 58 in Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz

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Biography

Wolfgang Pauli is Notable.

Wolfgang Pauli was a Nobel-prize winning physicist, born in Austria-Hungary, made a German citizen by annexation, a U.S. citizen by naturalization, and eventually a Swiss citizen when he move there in the late 1940s. His parents were chemist Wolfgang Joseph Pauli and Bertha Camilla Schultz.^[1]

Wolfgang was identified as a scientific prodigy at an early age. He excelled in high school, graduating from Döblingen Gymnasium with distinction. He published twice during his undergraduate career and earned his doctorate degree at the age of twenty-one. His dissertation garnered positive feedback from Albert Einstein, who would later nominate him for the Nobel prize for the work he completed at just 25 years old.

After completing his doctorate, Dr. Pauli quickly rose to a full tenured professorship. His personal life also flourished. In December 1929, he married Käthe Margarethe Deppner. The marriage quickly dissolved, and the couple divorced before the end of 1930. His love life quickly recovered, and on 04 April 1934, he married Franziska Bertram. The couple remained together until Dr. Pauli's death in 1958. No children were born from either marriage.

Dr. Pauli continued to achieve success in his career. In 1940, he was appointed Chair of Theoretical Physics at Princeton University, United States. While in the United States, he also served as visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Purdue. After World War II, Dr. Pauli returned to Europe, settling in Zurich. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1945 and was elected to Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1953.

He is best known for the Pauli exclusion principle. At a high school level of detail, it says that no two electrons can have the same spin and occupy the same orbital at the same time. I'll leave the details of fermions and quantum numbers for elsewhere^[1]. Of course his work was not limited to this. It included important contributions to quantum mechanics, postulation of the neutrino, and much more.

A small quote from a longer Wikipedia entry: "Pauli was born in Vienna to a chemist Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (né Wolf Pascheles, 1869–1955) and his wife Bertha Camilla Schütz; his sister was Hertha Pauli, the writer and actress. Pauli's middle name was given in honor of his godfather, physicist Ernst Mach."^[2]

Dr. Pauli died from pancreatic cancer on 15 December 1958. He is buried at Friedhof Zollikon, Zollikon, Bezirk Meilen, Zürich, Switzerland.

Sources : Genealogy

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wikipedia contributors, "Pauli exclusion principle," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pauli_exclusion_principle&oldid=879081374 (accessed February 1, 2019).
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Wolfgang Pauli," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolfgang_Pauli&oldid=874448259 (accessed February 1, 2019).

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Sources: Personal Life and Career

• Wolfgang Pauli – Facts. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. Fri. 1 Feb 2019. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1945/pauli/facts/>

• Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics. pp 78-81. Gino Segrè. Published 2007. Accessed online; (https://books.google.com/books?id=1RoWToj0R54C : 10 January 2023).

• Wolfgang Ernst Pauli. Biography. J J O'Connor and E F Robertson. Published October 2003. (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pauli/ : 10 January 2023). Also contains marriage and divorce dates.