Wolfgang Pauli

Wolfgang Pauli was a theoretical physicist and an early pioneer in quantum mechanics. He was also an adherent to Jung's concept of synchronicity.

Most relevant to our discussion here is the fact that Pauli became the namesake behind something called the “Pauli effect,” which supposed that humans could disrupt electronics through some kind of "macro-psychokinetic" phenomena. The "effect" name became attributed to Pauli because of the inordinate number of times that his presence seemed to have broken experimental equipment. It is said that his friend, the experimental physicist Otto Stern, even banned Pauli from his lab for fear that his equipment would be damaged.

Pauli himself explained his beliefs somewhat esoterically when he professed to believe in “the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego...All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.”

Basically, Pauli believed in psychokinesis before there was an agreed upon name for it.