1921: Receives a Ph.D. summa cum laud in theoretical physics from the University of Munich
            
 1919: three of his papers on the relativity theory were published
            
 1921-1922: Works in Gottingen as an assistant to Max Born
            
 1922: Moves to Copenhagen at the invitation of Niels Bohr.
            
 1924-1925: Formulates his exclusion principle
            
 1928: Becomes a professor of theoretical physics at the Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich
            
 1931: Proposes the existence of a new subatomic particle later named the neutrino
            
 1933: Publishes "Die allgemenien Prinzipien der Wellenmechanik" (general principle of wave mechanics)
            
 1940-1946: Becomes a visiting faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey
            
 1945: Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
            
 1958:  Receives the Max Planck Medal
            
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