Pauli's neutral particle
When: December 4, 1930
Where: Zurich, Switzerland
Wolfgang Pauli postulated the existence of a neutral, light-weight particle that could save the fundamental law of the conservation of energy. Enrico Fermi later named it "neutrino" and gave it a central role in the theory of beta decay. It would be 25 years before neutrinos were confirmed experimentally.
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