Talk:Wolfgang Pauli

message: With admirable consistency, the reference to popular culture in this Wikipedia article has a degrading effect. Every Wikipedia article that I have seen that contains such a reference is deleterious. Much popular culture is created by people who have only monetary profit as a goal. Many of them have limited knowledge, probably as a result of spending their time watching television and movies instead of reading. I would like to delete the section on popular culture.Lestrade 18:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Popular Culture

message: It is alleged that nobody but the Nazis called Pauli Jewish.  However, see the following:
*  List of Jewish Nobel prize winners
*  "Pauli described himself as being three-quarters Jewish"
*  List of Famous Jewish Catholics, i.e. "people that are both Catholic and Jewish".
--20.138.246.89 10:00, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are in violation of WP:NPA.--20.138.246.89 15:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: just concerning this part
"At the beginning of 1931, shortly after his divorce and immediately following his postulation of the neutrino, Pauli had a severe breakdown. "
see:
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fkjSagZVzhwC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=pauli+divorce&source=bl&ots=G-VKxreVrH&sig=v4ce9LtF2FgrDRA4PjMZba0Qx5E&hl=en&ei=-nw3SrvmM86JkQXhnMSMDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPA24,M1
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino#Proposal_of_neutrino_existence.2C_from_conservation_arguments
Ill change it, but I dont know how to cite the source: Lindorff, D. (2004). "Pauli and Jung: the meeting of two great minds". . Retrieved on 2009-6-16  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.241.117.205 (talk) 11:25, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  dates 

message: Should we categorize his death as caused by pancreatic cancer? __meco (talk) 17:46, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death 

message: A major part of Pauli's life involved his treatment and later work with Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung. The 'subject' in Jung's PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY is Wolfgang Pauli. Both men were interested in how the psyche effected material processes, Jung in terms of synchronicity and Pauli in terms of the Quantum Process. Some of Pauli's scientific researches arose out of their dialogue. Should this also be mentioned? It seems a shame to miss it, even if people are embarrassed by the idea of a 'hard-headed Scientist' spending time with an analyst. The page does, after all, mention Jung as one of his friends.  ThePeg (talk) 16:23, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pauli & Jung

message: "Pauli may have been unconcerned that much of his work thus went uncredited, but when it came to Heisenberg's world-renowned, 1958, Lecture at Göttingen on their joint work on a unified field theory, and the press release calling Pauli a mere "assistant to Professor Heisenberg", Pauli became offended, shooting back several times over the years at CERN and elsewhere by denouncing Heisenberg's physics prowess."
How could he have shot back "several times over the years" after the 1958 lecture, when he died in December 1958?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jorgeditor (talk • contribs) 09:38, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now removed the words over the years after listening to (Part 6 of) the source YouTube video, which does not contain these words or anything similar. Perhaps the editor who inserted this meant over the remaining year of his life. Dirac66 (talk) 02:10, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline error

message: I removed this. Google finds the cited book (), but not the word "twat" in it. I don't have access to the full text, so I can't verify the statement. However, the user who introduced it is called Ihatedirac2k13, see also their contributions, and the similar editing pattern of Ihatedirac. This stretches the limits of AGF a bit too much. — HHHIPPO 22:02, 7 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fully agree. --Chris Howard (talk) 20:29, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

text: Another numbered editor tried this again today. Since the last time I have checked my library and found the book which is the alleged source of this quote. The index contains 10 references to Dirac and I have now looked at these pages. As I expected, there is no such quote or indeed any inappropriate remark by Pauli. Dirac66 (talk) 18:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And it appeared today from editor 130.88.114.60. Reverted and issued a introducing deliberate factual error warning, level 1. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me  17:47, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed questionable statement 

message: Why is this page blocked from being editted? xox  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.75.200 (talk) 18:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: See the article edit history for 13 April. Vsmith (talk) 22:02, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blocked from editting 

message: Can we get another citation for the story about Pauli dying in Room 137?  I remember reading a different version of this (I can't remember what book), in that he was actually in Room 136, and requested to be moved to Room 137 before dying.  One of the versions might be apocryphal, like Newton and his apple.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 07:10, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Room 137 

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message: The paragraph about his conversation with Paul Ehrenfest hardly betrays arrogance.  Ehrenfest lightly insults Pauli's character, and Pauli immediately reverses to insult Ehrenfest's work. This is witticism.  If it were arrogance, one would hardly expect that the result would be that they become very good friends.
NathanZook (talk) 20:14, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrogant?  WAT? 

message: "In 1940, he tried in vain to obtain Swiss citizenship, which would have allowed him to remain at the ETH."
I assume this refers to ETH Zurich, but there is no preceding mention of him arriving there in the first place.Newburyjohn (talk) 07:19, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for noticing this. After checking the revision history, I traced the problem to an edit on 10 March 2021 which re-organized the Early Years section and deleted the ETH appointment and a few other facts for no apparent reason. I will restore the facts for which I can find sources. Dirac66 (talk) 20:30, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ETH 

message: Can't help feeling that Pauli was an underachiever. Burraron (talk) 14:10, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overall