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The Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical fermions cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system.

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1925 1
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Wolfgang Pauli 1
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1. Pauli Exclusion Principle (Wikipedia)
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The Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins, known as fermions, cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system.
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1. Pauli Exclusion Principle (Wikipedia)
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The principle was formulated by the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925.
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1. Pauli Exclusion Principle (Wikipedia)
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The principle was formulated by the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925.
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Pauli looked for an explanation for these numbers, which were at first only empirical.
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