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1927 Solvay Conference

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:42 pm
by 74novaman
I know many of you have probably seen this photo before, but the amount of intellect represented in this picture is staggering.

It was taken at the 5th annual Solvay Conference.

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From the wiki page:
Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.
:shock: :shock: :shock:

Here's the full page on the conference, including a list of names for those in the picture you don't recognize:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference



Just thought it was neat and worth sharing in case anyone hadn't seen it before.