Physics laureates Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (left) and Wolfgang Pauli (right) at the 6th Nobel Laureate meeting in Lindau, June 1956.

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Telegramme sent on June 14 1956 from physicists Fred Reines and Clyde Cowan to Wolfgang Pauli announcing the detection, for the first time, of neutrinos. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1995 was awarded to Reines for this discovery.

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The three physics laureates Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg and Enrico Fermi on a boat on Lake Como, Italy, in September 1927 .

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The fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, was held in October 1927. Prominent physicists from all the world met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. 17 of the 29 participants were or became Nobel Laureates. Back row, left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin. Middle row, left to right: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr. Front row, left to right: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.

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Wolfgang Pauli at 2 years and 8 months. The portrait was taken in December 1902.

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