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“If speculative ideas can not be tested, they're not science; they don't even rise to the level of being wrong.”

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Wolfgang Pauli
Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli was a distinguished physicist born on April 25, 1900, and died on December 15, 1958. He is recognized for his substantial contributions to quantum mechanics, especially for the formulation of the Pauli exclusion principle. Pauli was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945 for his work on the explanation of the fine structure of atomic spectra. more

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