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In this written version of a pre-dinner-speech at the workshop “The Nature of Gravity” at ISSI I illustrate Pauli’s science primarily with material that has not formally been published by him, but was communicated in detailed letters to eminent colleagues and friends.
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Straumann, N. Wolfgang Pauli and Modern Physics. Space Sci Rev 148, 25–36 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-009-9486-9
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