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The Pauli Archive
The CERN Archive has custody of the Pauli Archive, a private collection of scientific books, reprints, correspondence and manuscripts of the late Professor Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Laureate, 1945. The Pauli Archive also includes many photographs, Pauli's Nobel Prize and other scientific awards.
CERN received this collection of documents after Pauli's death in 1958. Then his widow assisted by Charles Enz, Pauli's last assistant, took on the task of administering Pauli's scientific legacy. They approached colleagues to help in reassembling his imposing scientific correspondence. In these letters the new ideas in physics were discussed much as they now are in preprints and journals. Mrs. Pauli was also assisted by Victor Weisskopf, one of Pauli's first assistants, who was to become Director-General of CERN in 1961. In 1960 she began the process of bequeathing Pauli's scientific legacy to CERN, where a specially dedicated Pauli Memorial Room (Salle Pauli) has been created.
Today, access to the Collection is under the responsibilty of the CERN Archive and permission to publish or quote from Pauli's work must be obtained from the Pauli Committee, via the CERN Archivist. The present chairman of the Committee is Martin Lüscher.
From 1928 until his death in 1958 Wolfgang Pauli was a professor at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, so many interesting documents relating to him are also held in their Archive (contact information).
The CERN Pauli Archive descriptions [Top]
| Class. | Title | Dates |
Ref. Nbr. |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2. | The Pauli Archive fonds level description and ISAAR(CPF) authority record for Wolfgang Pauli | 1900-1981 |
CERN-ARCH-WP |
Catalogue |
| 2.01 | The Pauli
Letter Collection series level description |
1920-1958 |
CERN-ARCH-PLC |
Catalogue |
| 2.02 | The Pauli Photo
Collection series level description |
1900-1981 |
CERN-ARCH-PPC |
Catalogue |
| 2.03 | The Pauli
Manuscript Collection series level description |
1900-1958 |
CERN-ARCH-PMC |
Catalogue |
| 2.04 | The Pauli
Biographical Collection series level description |
1900-1958 |
CERN-ARCH-PBC |
Catalogue |
| 2.05 | The
Pauli Obituary Collection series level description |
1958-1977 |
CERN-ARCH-POC |
Catalogue |
| 2.06 | The
Pauli Lecture Collection series level description |
1925-1960 |
CERN-ARCH-PLEC |
Catalogue |
| 2.07 | The
Pauli Objects and Miscellaneous Collection series level description |
1925-1958 |
CERN-ARCH-POMC |
Catalogue |