From the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons
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From the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons.
Participant Identification:
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 (seated):
Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.
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Hendrik Lorentz, Leiden University, seated between Madame Curie and Einstein, chaired the conference.
A few months later he became seriously ill and died on the 4th of February 1928.
Among the 29 scientists who attended the conference were 17 that were or would become Nobel Prize winners, none more so than Marie Sklodowska Curie who at this time held two Nobel Prizes, one in physics (shared with her husband Pierre Curie and with Henri Becquerel) in 1903, and the other for chemistry (she was the sole winner) in 1911.
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Marie Curie's love affair (after her husband Pierre Curie died in 1906) with Paul Langevin (seated next to Einstein in this picture), developed into a major scandal in France in 1911, and had some consequences for her Nobel Price in chemistry that year.
She had to write the Swedish Academy and point out that she was awarded the prize for her scientific work, and not for her private life before she was officially declared the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry that year.
Werner Heisenberg & Niels Bohr, and their Copenhagen meeting during WW.II (1941), are the basis for Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, about scientists and their responsibilities.
The picture was taken from a documentary TV program about Madam Curie, screen dumped from the MacMini and merged with Canon Stitch.
I, Chic Bee, did some image processing in the Apple Photos editor.
From the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons
I found this photo and the explanatory text online. I believe it is in the public domain.
If anyone knows the photographer and author, please let me know and I will give proper credit.
From the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons.
Participant Identification:
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 (seated):
Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson.
_________________________________
Hendrik Lorentz, Leiden University, seated between Madame Curie and Einstein, chaired the conference.
A few months later he became seriously ill and died on the 4th of February 1928.
Among the 29 scientists who attended the conference were 17 that were or would become Nobel Prize winners, none more so than Marie Sklodowska Curie who at this time held two Nobel Prizes, one in physics (shared with her husband Pierre Curie and with Henri Becquerel) in 1903, and the other for chemistry (she was the sole winner) in 1911.
_________________________________
Marie Curie's love affair (after her husband Pierre Curie died in 1906) with Paul Langevin (seated next to Einstein in this picture), developed into a major scandal in France in 1911, and had some consequences for her Nobel Price in chemistry that year.
She had to write the Swedish Academy and point out that she was awarded the prize for her scientific work, and not for her private life before she was officially declared the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry that year.
Werner Heisenberg & Niels Bohr, and their Copenhagen meeting during WW.II (1941), are the basis for Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen, about scientists and their responsibilities.
The picture was taken from a documentary TV program about Madam Curie, screen dumped from the MacMini and merged with Canon Stitch.
I, Chic Bee, did some image processing in the Apple Photos editor.