Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger… was this the greatest meeting of minds, ever?
Some of the world’s most notable physicists participated in the 1927 Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons. In fact, 17 of the 29 scientists attending were or became Nobel Laureates – none more so than Marie Skłodowska Curie who was awarded the Nobel Prize twice.
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.