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Why did Wolfgang Pauli win the Nobel Prize?

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He was awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics for his enunciation (1925) of the Pauli exclusion principle , fundamental to quantum mechanics, according to which no two electrons in an atom may be in the same quantum state. It was later found that certain other particles also are governed by the principle.

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