Physicist
Wolfgang Pauli
Austrian physicist, physics Nobel prize laureate
1900 - 1958
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Wolfgang Pauli
His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Pauli is the 62nd most popular physicist (down from 39th in 2024), the 54th most popular biography from Austria (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Austrian Physicist.
Wolfgang Pauli is most famous for his exclusion principle, which states that no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same quantum state.
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Wolfgang Pauli ranks #21 among 620 notable people born in Vienna, Austria, inside the top 4% by HPI.
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Among Physicists
Among physicists, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 62 out of 863. Before him are Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, Henry Cavendish, Otto Stern, and Leo Szilard. After him are Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Max Born, Charles Glover Barkla, Paul Dirac, and Léon Foucault.
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Otto Stern
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Leo Szilard
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Wolfgang Pauli
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Contemporaries
Among people born in 1900, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 10. Before him are Erich Fromm, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Martin Bormann, Charles Francis Richter, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Luis Buñuel. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Gladwyn Jebb, and Dennis Gabor. Among people deceased in 1958, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 3. Before him are Pope Pius XII, and Rosalind Franklin. After him are Imre Nagy, Roger Martin du Gard, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Kurt Alder, Tyrone Power, Faisal II of Iraq, Clinton Davisson, Ernest Lawrence, and John B. Watson.
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Erich Fromm
PSYCHOLOGIST
1900 - 1980
HPI: 81.27
Rank: 4
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
NOBLEMAN
1900 - 2002
HPI: 81.23
Rank: 5
Martin Bormann
POLITICIAN
1900 - 1945
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 6
Charles Francis Richter
GEOLOGIST
1900 - 1985
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 7
Hans Adolf Krebs
CHEMIST
1900 - 1981
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 8
Luis Buñuel
FILM DIRECTOR
1900 - 1983
HPI: 78.28
Rank: 9
Wolfgang Pauli
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1958
HPI: 78.12
Rank: 10
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
POLITICIAN
1900 - 1974
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 11
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1958
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 12
Hans-Georg Gadamer
PHILOSOPHER
1900 - 2002
HPI: 77.23
Rank: 13
Hans Frank
POLITICIAN
1900 - 1946
HPI: 76.65
Rank: 14
Gladwyn Jebb
POLITICIAN
1900 - 1996
HPI: 75.89
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Dennis Gabor
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1979
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Rank: 16
Others Deceased in 1958
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Pope Pius XII
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1876 - 1958
HPI: 87.71
Rank: 1
Rosalind Franklin
BIOLOGIST
1920 - 1958
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 2
Wolfgang Pauli
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1958
HPI: 78.12
Rank: 3
Imre Nagy
POLITICIAN
1896 - 1958
HPI: 77.93
Rank: 4
Roger Martin du Gard
WRITER
1881 - 1958
HPI: 77.76
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
PHYSICIST
1900 - 1958
HPI: 77.57
Rank: 6
Kurt Alder
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1902 - 1958
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Tyrone Power
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1914 - 1958
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Clinton Davisson
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Ernest Lawrence
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1901 - 1958
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John B. Watson
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1878 - 1958
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In Austria
Among people born in Austria, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 54 out of 1,589. Before him are Friedrich Hayek (1899), Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415), Anton Webern (1883), Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (1833), Otto von Habsburg (1912), and Pope Gregory V (972). After him are Alois Hitler (1837), Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608), Maria Carolina of Austria (1752), Archduchess Sophie of Austria (1855), Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678), and Ludwig Boltzmann (1844).
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Friedrich Hayek
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Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
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Anton Webern
COMPOSER
1883 - 1945
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Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria
POLITICIAN
1833 - 1896
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Otto von Habsburg
NOBLEMAN
1912 - 2011
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Pope Gregory V
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
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Alois Hitler
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1837 - 1903
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Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
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Maria Carolina of Austria
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Archduchess Sophie of Austria
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Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
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Ludwig Boltzmann
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Among Physicists In Austria
Among physicists born in Austria, Wolfgang Pauli ranks 3. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), and Lise Meitner (1878). After him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904).
Erwin Schrödinger
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Lise Meitner
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Rank: 2
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1900 - 1958
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Rank: 3
Ludwig Boltzmann
1844 - 1906
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Christian Doppler
1803 - 1853
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Victor Francis Hess
1883 - 1964
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Rank: 6
Victor Weisskopf
1908 - 2002
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Rank: 7
Anton Zeilinger
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 8
Walter Kohn
1923 - 2016
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Rank: 9
Otto Robert Frisch
1904 - 1979
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Rank: 10
Fritjof Capra
1939 - Present
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 11
Berta Karlik
1904 - 1990
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 12
