Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Quotes
God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.
Citations
Pauli, Wolfgang. Quoted in Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, by Gabor A. Somorjai and Yimin Li, John Wiley & Sons, 2010, p. 1.
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Wolfgang Ernst Pauli was an Austrian (and later American / Swiss) theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after having been nominated by Albert Einstein, Pauli received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.