On this day in 1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli dies

Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) the Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he 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," involving spin theory, underpinning the structure of matter and the whole of chemistry.