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Update: This fascinating picture is from the Fifth Solvay Conference, the most famous of the Solvay Conferences in Physics that are held at the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, Brussels. Let me quote straight from wikipedia:
Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world's most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The leading figures were Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr. Einstein, disenchanted with Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle," remarked "God does not play dice." Bohr replied, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do." (See Bohr-Einstein debates.) Seventeen of the twenty-nine attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.Click to find a high resolution version of the above image.
Click to find a photograph of the first Solvay conference that was held in 1911.
if i am not mistaken, that is Humboldt Uni in the background.
we used to have our graduate school meetings apparently in the same room that Einstein once used..
Posted by
Srinath Srinivasa |
6:26 AM, May 30, 2006
Oh so it is not Humboldt Uni.. What I do know is there is some similar photo like this in front of the Uni. Don't know whether it was the same set of people; I can only recognize Einstein! :)
Posted by
Srinath Srinivasa |
10:27 PM, May 30, 2006
Perhaps there is. What interested me more was the gathering itself, and the fascinating ready wit of Bohr in saying, "Einstein, stop telling god what to do."
Posted by
Anonymous |
1:36 AM, May 31, 2006
"Einstein, stop telling god what to do."
:) :)
Posted by
Srinath Srinivasa |
10:13 PM, May 31, 2006