Like any tribal group, physicists have a way of preserving their collective experience in a fund of telling anecdotes about one another. The late George Gamow was a master of this particular form of storytelling. In his classic book Thirty Years That Shook Physics, he illuminated the peculiar relationship between theorists and experimenters with the following story about Wolfgang and the widely held notion that theoretical physicists can't safely handle experimental equipment: Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold. A mysterious event that did not seem at first to be connected with Pauli's presence once occurred in Professor [James] Franck's laboratory in G6ttingen. Early one afternoon, without apparent cause, a complicated apparatus for the study of atomic phenomena collapsed. Franck wrote humorously about this to at his Zurich address and, after some delay, received an answer in an envelope with a Danish stamp. wrote that he had gone to visit [Niels] Bohr and at the time of the mishap in Franck's laboratory his train was stopped for a few minutes at the G6ttingen railroad station. Gamow added: You may believe this anecdote or not, but there are many other observations concerning the reality of the Effect!