Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian theoretical physicist, part of the University of Göttingen tradition with Max Born, Hermann Weyl, David Hilbert, Hermann Winkowski, used in the field of quantum mechanics of the Science Church to promote the Theory of Relativity of Albert Einstein. He was professor at University of Hamburg, EHT in Zürich Switzerland (Hermann Weyl, Albert Einstein) and from 1935 at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Princeton, which played a role in the Manhattan Project with John von Neumann and Edward Teller. He was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians University by Arnold Sommerfeld (Royal Society, teacher of Werner Heisenberg, Hans Bethe, Rudolf Peierls). |
He was a friend of Niels Bohr and his student Werner Heisenberg. During the 20's he came up with the concept of atomic 'spin' and the exclusion principle, a theory about how identical particles with half-integer spins (fermions, named after Enrico Fermi) cannot occupy the same quantum state. For the exclusion principle he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (like Einstein and his teacher Max Born).
At the EHT in Zurich he worked with Robert Oppenheimer.
Fermi and Paul Dirac introduced the Dirac-Fermi statistics concept to describe 'fermions'.
He also invented the concept of a neutrino, a fermion that only interacts through the weak interaction or gravity. He and Enrico Fermi introduced the term at the Solvay conference in 1933.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1953.
Carl Jung analyzed his dreams with the I Ching and wrote Psychology and Alchemy about it. Jung and Weyl participated in the Eranos Conferences of Theosophist Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (influenced by Alice Bailey, mother friend of GB Shaw) with Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, Gershom Scholem, Ludwig Derleth (Stefan George circle), Martin Buber, Erwin Schrödinger near Monte Verità.
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