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The most epic moment of the history was captured in this photograph when the world’s 29 greatest minds ever came together for the Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons in 1927.
The colorized version released 2012. Credit: pastincolour.com
Back Row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin
Middle Row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr
Front Row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson
Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
This Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons was held on October 1927, where the world’s most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory.
The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg’s “Uncertainty Principle,” remarked “God does not play dice.” Bohr replied, “Einstein, stop telling God what to do.”
Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines. [source]
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