The most 'smart' photo in history, never seen again

The rare photo, even considered the most 'smart' in the history of the scientific community, is a photo of 29 participants in the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. In There are 17 people who have won Nobel Prizes or will continue to win Nobel Prizes in the future.

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Right in the middle of the first row of pictures is Albert Einstein. To the right of Albert Einstein's seat was Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the only woman in attendance. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and also the first person to win the prize twice, as well as the only individual to win the Nobel Prize in two separate fields: physics and chemistry.

In the photo are all outstanding figures in the scientific world of the 20th century, all of whom can be considered geniuses with IQs over 180 such as Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz.

Below are the names of the other attendees, some of whom are very familiar (from left to right).

Front row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, CTR Wilson, Owen Richardson.

Middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr.

Back row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, JE Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin.

At the 5th Solvay Conference, leading experts in physics, led by Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, discussed new formulas for quantum physics.

Isabella Humphrey

Update 13 December 2023