(1900–58), Austrian-born American physicist. He made a major contribution to quantum theory with the Pauli exclusion principle. In 1931 he postulated the existence of the neutrino, later discovered by Enrico Fermi. Nobel Prize for Physics (1945).
Definition of Pauli, Wolfgang in US English:
Pauli, Wolfgang
proper nounˈpôlē
(1900–58), US physicist, born in Austria. He made a major contribution to quantum theory with his exclusion principle, according to which only two electrons in an atom could occupy the same quantum level, provided they had opposite spins. Nobel Prize for Physics (1945).