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Born April 25, 1900 • Vienna • Austria
Died December 15, 1958 (aged 58) • Zürich • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1945)
Subjects Of Study Pauli exclusion principle • neutrino • quantum number • subatomic particle

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