Pauli was one of many physicists at the time who were totally disinterested in experiments and equipment. This put Heisenberg in some hot water during his docto

Pauli was one of many physicists at the time who were totally disinterested in experiments and equipment. This put Heisenberg in some hot water during his doctoral exam: "When an angry Wien asked how a storage battery works, the candidate was still lost. Wien saw no reason to pass the young man, no matter how brilliant he was in other fields" https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.cfm https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/199801/heisenberg.c...