Article 77BF5 Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment

Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment

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Ellsworth Toohey
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Wolfgang Pauli has a real law of physics named after him, the exclusion principle. Colleagues named a second one after him as a joke, "according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room." The Pauli effect was the reputation he built for making laboratory apparatus fail by walking into the room. - Read the rest

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