This image is of the 5th Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons. Held in 1927, it is widely regarded as one of the most notable gatherings of scientific minds in history
Now, the event has been brought to life in color.
The conference was attended by 29 of the world’s leading physicists, 17 of whom would go on to win Nobel Prizes. Among these luminaries were legendary figures like Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, whose groundbreaking work shaped modern physics.
Here are the attendees (in order of appearance in the image)
• Peter Debye
• Irving Langmuir
• Martin Knudsen
• Auguste Piccard
• Max Planck
• William Lawrence Bragg
• Émile Henriot
• Paul ehrenfest
• Maria Skłodowska-Curie
• Hendrik Anthony Kramer
• Edouard hearts
• Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Presidente)
• Théophile of donder
• Paul dirac
• Albert Einstein
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Arthur Holly Compton
• Jules-émile verschaffelt
• Paul Langevin
• Louis-Victor de broglie
• Charles-eugène guye
• Wolfgang Pauli
• Werner Heisenberg
• Max Born
• Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
• Ralph Howard Fowler
• Léon Brillouin
• Niels Bohr
• Owen Willans Richardson
• William Henry Bragg (absent in photo)
• Henri-Alexander Deslandres (absent in the photo)
• Edmond Van Aubel (absent in photo)
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