"Although Heisenberg and Dirac may have been even more creative than Pauli, no physicist alive was more clever."
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Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory (1992), Chap. 4 : Quantum Mechanics and Its Discontents
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Wolfgang Pauli
1900 – 1958
österreichischer Physiker (Nobelpreis 1945)
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