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The Role of the Exclusion Principle for Atoms to Stars: A Historical Account

Norbert Straumann

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0403199

Abstract

In a first historical part I shall give a detailed description of how Pauli discovered --before the advent of the new quantum mechanics -- his exclusion principle. The second part is devoted to the insight and results that have been obtained in more recent times in our understanding of the stability of matter in bulk, both for ordinary matter (like stones) and self-gravitating bodies.

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