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Yesterday, i looked up Wolfgang Pauli on Wikipedia. He was one of the most important physicists. His exclusion principle makes us understand the differences between bonsons (e.g. protons) and fermions (e.g. electrons). His insight has led us to understanding of why electrons move on seperate paths in atoms, and why protons don’t and why an aggregate like Bonse-Einstein condensate is possible.
I looked at the page primarily for his Not Even Wrong-quote, but found more. the Pauli effect. That is the effect that expensive equipment would mysteriously break when Pauli was nearby or even in the same town waiting for a train!
Physicists like little or big jokes that are off. Only look at the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow theory, where Gamow and Alpher just put Bethe’s name into the apper because the Alpha-Beta-Gamma similarity was so cool!
I also looked up Godwin’s Law, which says that

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

That is just so true