"It was Pauli’s tutor who introduced him to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Few physicists understood the elegant but radical theory or grasped its profound implications at the time. Pauli, however, had no trouble diving in. Barely two months out of high school, he wrote a paper of his own on the subject. Determined to pursue a career in physics, he moved to Munich in 1918 to study under Arnold Sommerfeld, a pioneer in the emerging field of quantum mechanics. Pauli’s paper, which had even come to Einstein’s attention, impressed Sommerfeld, who wrote to a colleague about it, noting, “I have around me a really astonishing specimen of the intellectual elite of Vienna in the young Pauli … a first-year student!”"
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