arXiv:physics/0010003·v1·History and Philosophy of Physics
On Wolfgang Pauli's most important contributions to physics
Norbert Straumann (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich)🇨🇭
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.
Comments: 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