Wolfgang Pauli
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austria
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n theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein
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, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics
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 for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle
Pauli exclusion principle
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," involving spin theory
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, underpinning the structure of matter and the whole of chemistry
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.
Pauli was born in Vienna
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 to a chemist
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 Wolfgang Joseph Pauli (
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Wolf Pascheles, 1869–1955) and his wife Bertha Camilla Schütz.
Quotations

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.

Letter to Carl Jung, (16 June 1948 )

Both of us [seem] to agree that the future of Jung's ideas is not with [psycho-] therapy... but with a unitarian, holistic concept of nature and the position of man in it.

Letter to Markus Fierz regarding Carl Jung's ideas (25 December 1950)

"The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4.

Letter To C.A. Meier (1950)

It is always the older that emanates the new one.

Letter to Markus Fierz (13 October 1951)

"The designation 'Jungian Psychology' is actually already unscientific sectarianism. I only acknowledge C.G. Jung's contribution to the general psychology of the unconscious.

Letter to C.A. Meier (the president of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich) in (1956)

There is no God and Paul Dirac|Dirac is his messenger. (German: Es gibt keinen Gott und Dirac ist sein Prophet.)

W. Heisenberg, Der Teil und das Ganze, 1969, Piper, München, p. 119

 
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