Question

For what did Wolfgang Pauli win Nobel Prize for Physics?
a) Invention of coincidence method
b) Work with elementary particles
c) Discovery of helium
d) Pauli Exclusion Principle

Answer 1

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 orPauli principle". The discovery involved spin theory, which is the basis of a theory of the structure of matter.