biography
pronunciation:
[powlee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1900–58)
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied under Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich and Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, then taught at Hamburg and Zürich (1928–55, apart from a wartime period at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1940–6). He formulated the ‘exclusion principle’ (1924) in quantum physics, and in 1931 postulated the existence of an electrically neutral particle called the neutrino, first detected by Frederick Reines (1953). He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics, and became a US citizen in 1946, later returning to Zürich. |
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