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5th Solvay Conference

Article: Solvay Conference

When people think "historic photograph of physicists", this is the photo that comes to mind. This is from the famous 5th Solvay Conference in Belgium, which brought together the greatest scientists of the world, including Einstein, Curie, Schroedinger, Bohr, Heisenberg, Planck, Dirac, Pauli, Lorentz, Born, etc.

This is the conference where Einstein stated, "God does not play dice," to which Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do." These people were the architects of modern science. Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees are Nobel Prize winners. The rest received consolation prizes.

  • Nominate and support. - BRIAN0918 06:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Interesting to see so much brainpower on a single picture! Technically speaking, why if one clicks on the high resolution version of the picture, one obtains a different photograph with the names unederneath, but of very low quality? I think it would be interesting to have the good quality picture, but with the name below it, because I am sure that everyone recognized Einstein, but I must admit that I had no idea of what Schrödinger or Plank looked like before looking at this picture. Glaurung 06:55, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Historical significance is more important than image quality. (Could be reduced 50% with no info loss.) --Janke | Talk 07:20, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • I would keep it larger just so people can print it on a poster, for example. It's not like we're going to be using full-size images in articles. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-03-16 07:32

Promoted Image:Solvay conference 1927.jpg --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 05:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]