Wolfgang Pauli proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930 to resolve an apparent energy loss problem in a radioactivity experiment.
Notes on verification
Well-established history of physics, corroborated by multiple independent authoritative sources including APS, CERN archives, and Pauli biographies. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Un neutrino éblouit l’astrophysique | CNRS Le journal (seed:science_and_space)
- https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201012/physicshistory.cfm (corroboration)
- https://cds.cern.ch/record/83282 (corroboration)
- https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-manic-depressive-particle (corroboration)