Theoretical physicists are known for their bad luck with equipment. Other scientists like to say that something breaks whenever a theoretical physicist walks into the room. One physicist, Wolfgang Pauli, was especially famous for the unfortunate effect he had on laboratory equipment. A scientist in Gottingen, Germany, to about the time some equipment in his laboratory suddenly broke for no clear reason. Later he heard that on that day Pauli had been traveling by train through Germany. In fact, the train had stopped at the station in Gottingen