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Apart from the numerous invitations to congresses,
such as all the Solvay Conferences since 1927 and to guest lectures, Wolfgang
Pauli was honoured with some of the most important awards that a physicist can
receive. In addition to the Nobel Prize (1945), these were the Lorentz Medal
(1931) and the Max Planck Medal (1958). On this
occasion hold Paul Ehrenfest a laudatory
remarkable speech.
Several academies made Pauli a member: Stockholm, London
(Royal Society), Uppsala, Lund, Copenhagen, Boston, Munich and Bangalore.
Moreover, Pauli received in 1955 the honour of presiding over the conference in
Berne on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the theory of relativity.
Shortly before his death, he was able to receive an honorary doctorate from
the University of Hamburg.
In November 1945 Wolfgang Pauli was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the exclusion principle. The event
was welcomed with enthusiasm at Princeton because Pauli was the first active
member of the Institute to receive this highest recognition. His colleagues
staged a large official ceremony to which many prominent persons were invited.
The climax was the concluding speech by Albert Einstein in which he described
Pauli as his intellectual successor.
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In November 1958, the degree of honorary professor of the University of Hamburg is awarded to Wolfgang Pauli.
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The last picture: Wolfgang Pauli at the lake of Geneva, Oktober 1958
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The Max Planck Medal is
awarded to Wolfgang Pauli in April 1958 by the "Verband Deutscher
Physikalischer Gesellschaften" (Federation of German Physical Societies) "in
consideration of his significant merits in the development of quantum theory".
Its fist holders besides Max Planck himself, were Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr
and Arnold Sommerfeld.
In recognition of his services, the School Council of the ETH
granted an increase of salary for Wolfgang Pauli effective from the 1st of
January 1959. But on the 5th of December 1958 he had to break off a lecture
because of violent pains. The next day he was brought to hospital, where he
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