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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. -  BRIAN  0918 06:18, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * You need to redownload the image. Try pressing CTRL+F5. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-16 06:56
 * Support Ok, now I see it correctly, and the legend in the article clearly shows who's who. Glaurung 10:15, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-16 07:32

--PS2pcGAMER (talk) 05:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Very good historical significance, but i couldnt find myself in the pic :) --vineeth 07:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I only recognised Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, but I recognise a few of the names. I have seen the photograph before, and it is great to think that so many great minds were around at the same time, and that they actually met. Imagine listening in on their conversations, and having no idea what the hell they are saying :) --liquidGhoul 12:52, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This is way before most of the extremely esoteric terminology of quantum mechanics was invented, so lectures may have been easier to understand... at least, until they got into the actual mathematics behind it... &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-16 13:25
 * Support Superb.  Though I don't know why Wolfgang Pauli thought he was excluded from having to look at the camera. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meniscus (talk • contribs)
 * I think he did it on principle. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-16 14:12
 * You should be excluded from Wikipedia for making that pun. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 20:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Probably the most famous image of theoretical physicists. It would be nice to have a really top-notch scan. –Joke 16:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 01:01, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - fabulous picture, very relevant and memorable. Johntex\talk 02:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Good to know such a picture exists. Remarkable.-- Dakota ~  °  04:27, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. great picture, not blurry, center. There is nothing wrong. Jedi6  -(need help?)  05:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Famous, iconic image, nice digital version.--ragesoss 08:01, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - Great quality, historic moment -- Scot t  15:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I'm not sure I understand the copyright status as labeled. This photograph is clearly not a work of the U.S. federal government (as it says, it was taken by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay -- just because a government website hosts it does not mean they created it). Do we know for sure that it is in the public domain? --Fastfission 15:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm still working on figuring that out. It appears to be PD, but as it's a very famous image, the Institut would like to keep its status unclear. In Belgium, it's life+70 years for public domain, or if the institution owns the rights to the image (which appears to be the case with this), it appears to also be 70 years after publication, which would put this in the public domain. I've been talking with a lawyer Wikipedian to figure this out exactly. &mdash; 0918 BRIAN &bull; 2006-03-19 16:25
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.png|15px]] Support --Fir0002 style="color:#C6CACC; background:#F8FCFF">www 23:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support btw, why did you crop one participant from this picture? :-) JdH 17:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong support Fantastic picture, especially for the time Search  4  Lancer  04:24, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support as another of those absolutely classic photos that should have been featured a long time ago. Only five of the people in the photo are redlinked! Batmanand | Talk 10:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support A great picture! Canuck89 03:52, 30 March 2006 (UTC)