Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst

Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst (1900-58) Austrian-born Swiss physicist. After studying with Niels Bohr and Max Bom, he taught at Heidelberg and, finally Zurich. His formulation in 1925 of the Pauli exclusion principle explained the electronic make-up of atoms. 

Peierls, Rudolf E. (1959). Wolfgang Ernst Pauli. In Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 5, pp. 175-192. London Royal Society. 

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900-1958) Austrian physicist Vienna, Austria, Zurich, Switzerland, and Princeton, USA. 

In a monumental achievement, Wolfgang Ernst Pauli used Schrddinger s equation to solve for the motion of electrons in atoms and developed his now famous exclusion principle, which forms the foundation of the structure of the periodic table of elements, and indeed of modem chemistry. 

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