Biography of wolfgang pauli
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Pauli, Wolfgang
(b.Vienna, Austria, 25 April ; d.
Biography of wolfgang pauli
Zurich, Switzerland, 14 December )
physics.
Wolfgang Pauli’s father, a distinguished and original scholar, was professor of colloid chemistry at the University of Vienna and was also named Wolfgang. Thus his son, in his early work, called himself Wolfgang Pauli, Jr.
The child was baptized a Catholic, his godfather being Ernst Mach, the physicist and critical philosopher. Pauli went to school in Vienna. Toward the end of his high school studies he became acquainted with Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which at that time was completely new.
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He read it secretly during dull classroom hours. He was truly proficient in higher mathematics, for he had previously studied Jordan’s Cours d’ analyse in the same manner. Einstein’s papers had made a deep impression on him.
It was, he said, as if scales had fallen from his eyes; one day, so it appeared to him, he suddenly understood the general theory of relativity.
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