The Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical fermions cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system.
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The Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins, known as fermions, cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system.
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The principle was formulated by the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925.
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The principle was formulated by the Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925.
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Pauli looked for an explanation for these numbers, which were at first only empirical.
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In quantum mechanics, the Pauli exclusion principle states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins (i.e., fermions) cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics.
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