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- noun physics A principle in
quantum mechanics that states that no two identicalfermions may occupy the samequantum state simultaneously .
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- noun no two electrons or protons or neutrons in a given system can be in states characterized by the same set of quantum numbers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Wolfgang Pauli.]
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For Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist
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