2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/83806After some brief biographical notes, Wolfgang Pauli's main contributions to general relativity, quantum theory, quantum field theory, and elementary particle physics are reviewed. A detailed description is given how Pauli descovered - before the advent of the new quantum mechanics - his exclusion principle.Opening lecture at the symposium: Wolfgang Pauli And Modern Physics, in honor of the 100th anniversary of Wolfgang Pauli's birthday, ETH (Zurich), May 4-6 2000; in GermanHistory and Philosophy of PhysicsGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyHigh Energy Physics - TheoryQuantum Physicstext