Pauli, Wolfgang Ernst
The Austrian Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900 - 1958), son to a physician and chemist, was a theoretical physicist.
He made many important contributions as a physicist, primarily in the field of quantum mechanics.
He proposed the existence of a hitherto unobserved neutral particle with a mass, no greater than 1% the mass of a proton. In 1934, Enrico Fermi incorporated the particle, which he called a neutrino, into his theory of beta decay. It was first confirmed experimentally in 1956 by Frederick Reines and Clyde Lorrain Cowan.
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