#solvay conference
The most intelligent photograph ever taken (17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners) from the fifth Solvay conference chaired by Hendrik Lorentz on electrons and photons on October, 1927 in Brussels Belgium.
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Participants of the 28th Solvay Conference on the Physics of Quantum Information held from 19th to 22nd may this year in Brussels, Belgium;
Seated: Ketterle, Maldecena, Haroche, Henneaux, Gross, Zoller, Wineland, Preskill, Halperin, Wen
Second row: Aharonov, Stanford, Engelhardt, Aaronson, Rey, Vazirani, Girvin, Schoelkopf, Blatt, Cirac, Gottesman, Shor, Verstraete
Third row: Sevrin, Hubeny, Gambetta, Terhal, Simmons, Khemani, Nakamura
Fourth row: Marcus, Bloch, Browaeys, Vidick, Pollmann, Wiebe, Penington
Fifth row: Jiang, Fisher, Wall, Harlow, Martinis, Troyer, Farhi, Almheiri, Calabrese, Altman
Not in photo: Lukin, Mahadev
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Participants of the first Solvay conference held late in October, 1911 bringing together theoretical physicists and distinguishable chemists;
Seated (L- R) ; Walther Nernst, Louis Brillouin, Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Emil Warburg, Jean Perrin, Wilhelm Wien, Marie Curie and Henri Poincaré.
Standing (L - R); Robert Goldschmidt, Max Planck, Heinrich Rubens, Louis de Broglie, Martin Knudsen, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Georges Hostelet, Edouard Herzen, James Jeans, Ernest Rutherford, Kamerlingh Onnes, Albert Einstein and Paul Langevin.
The Solvay conference chaired by Hendrik Lorentz was on the theory of radiation and quanta and took place at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels, Belgium.
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