Word: paulis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early hours of the morning roaming hotel corridors in his bare feet, looking for someone he can drag into his room to chat with while keeping one eye on cnn. He power-naps for 15 minutes or so, sometimes during meetings while supposedly listening to a translation. Aide Rosemarie Pauli-Gikas is assigned, among other tasks, to pinch him awake at the right moment...
PARTICLE SLEUTHS When Wolfgang Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...Never" turned out to be in around 25 years. It was in the mid-1950s that Frederick Reines and the late Clyde Cowan, then at Los Alamos, set out to find Pauli's impossible particle--the research that earned Reines, now at the University of California at Irvine, half of this year's prize. (Cowan was ineligible because Nobels are not awarded posthumously...
...confusion. Will Stewart, as Adam the repressed homosexual producer and fiance, starts out a little slow but soon eases into his character. Strutting about the stage, he makes great strides to assert his masculinity, making fun of "faggot beer" while defending the presence of the woman on the St. Pauli Girl bottle with the clever retort, "Yeah, but she's a whore." As the plot thickens and Peter is able to coerce him into sex, he reluctantly begins to admit that he enjoys it, and his faltering machismo is the source of much laughter...