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1900 – 1958Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958)Died 15 December 1958, aged 58The Austrian-born theoretical physicist formulated the Pauli exclusion principle, a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, for which he won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics. He also predicted the existence of the neutrino.