Wolfgang Pauli:
Wolfgang Pauli was an Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
April 25, 1900 in Vienna, Austria
Death:
December 15, 1958 in Zurich, Switzerland
Claim to Fame:
Pauli was a Austrian physicist who discovered an atom's electrons each have their own unique quantum state. This is now known as the Pauli exclusion principle and would earn him the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Interesting Trivia:
Pauli is also famous for the "Pauli Effect". Things would go wrong like experimental equipment would break down, vacuum tubes would burn out or mysterious malfunctions when he was in the vicinity. It happened enough times where his colleagues took notice and named the effect after him.