Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment
Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment Ellsworth Toohey 6:45 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Pauli effect — Unknown authorUnknown author / CC BY 4.0 (via Wikipedia) 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. Otto Stern, a friend, banned him from his Hamburg lab.
- ▪Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment Ellsworth Toohey 6:45 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Pauli effect — Unknown authorUnknown author / CC BY 4.0 (via Wikipedia) Wolfgang Pauli has a real law of physics named after him
- ▪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
- ▪Otto Stern, a friend, banned him from his Hamburg lab.
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Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment Ellsworth Toohey 6:45 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Pauli effect — Unknown authorUnknown author / CC BY 4.0 (via Wikipedia) 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. Otto Stern, a friend, banned him from his Hamburg lab. One incident happened while he was far from a laboratory.
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