Editing Pauli effect (section)

==Anecdotal evidence==
Since the 20th century, the work in some subfields of [[physics]] research has been divided between theorists and experimentalists. Those theorists who lack an aptitude or interest in experimental work have on occasion earned a reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment.

An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the [[University of Göttingen]]. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact ''absent''. [[James Franck]], the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure. The incident is reported in [[George Gamow]]'s book ''Thirty Years That Shook Physics'',<ref>Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory, 1966, Dover Publications, {{ISBN|0-486-24895-X}}.</ref> where it is also claimed the more talented the theoretical physicist, the stronger the effect.

R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli's entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Peierls, R. |title=Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, 1900-1958 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume=5 |year=1960 |pages=174–192 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1960.0014 |s2cid=62478251 }}</ref>

In 1934, Pauli saw a failure of his car during a honeymoon tour with his second wife as proof of a real Pauli effect since it occurred without an obvious external cause.<ref>Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u. a, Band 3 von Wolfgang Pauli, Karl von Meyenn, Herausgeber Karl von Meyenn, Verlag Birkhäuser, 1993, {{ISBN|0-387-54911-0}}, P. 763</ref>

In February 1950, when he was at [[Princeton University]], the [[cyclotron]] burnt, and he asked himself if this mischief belonged to such a Pauli effect, named after him.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, u.a. |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |first=Wolfgang |last=Pauli |others=ed. Karl von Meyenn |year=1996 |volume=4/I |page=37 |isbn=3-540-59442-6 |oclc=36847539|display-authors=etal}}</ref>