The Solvay Conference - 1927

[alanfgag]

Interesting hats on some very large minds... from the 1927 Solvay Physics Conference.

[video=youtube_share;8GZdZUouzBY]http://youtu.be/8GZdZUouzBY[/video]

The players are identified below. How many Nobel prizes do you count?

 

[bowlerman]

Lots of wonderful rolled brims in there. That's great-- my dad will appreciate this. thanks for posting!

 

[mayserwegener]

Super!

 

[zetwal]

Cool images. Why not put them in the Non Shorpy Web All Stars thread?

 

[Dave E]

Wow. Those are some seriously big names!

 

[hatophile]

Planck, Curie, Einstein, Bohr, Wow!

 

[Rabbit]

Cool pic. Werner Heisenberg was 26 back then. He's the only really young fellow among them.

 

[alanfgag]

Wolfgang Pauli, standing to Heisenberg's right (left in the photo) was 27. Heisenberg was awarded his Nobel Prize in 1932. Pauli had to wait until 1945. To my count, 8 had won the Nobel Prize in physics by 1927... another 6 would go on to win in the years following.

I wonder if they ever talked hats?

 

[alanfgag]

Hendrik Lorentz, seated between Einstein and Madame Curie was 74 when this photo was taken. He died a few months later. Wikipedia notes 17 Nobel prizes in total among the attendees.