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What I find most striking about the famous 1927 Solvay conference photo is the presence of only one American - Arthur Compton. Just ten years later, Hitler and funding ensured that the center of physics research had moved almost completely to the United States.pic.twitter.com/LWHaXilYBr
Two Americans - I was reminded of Irving Langmuir’s presence in the first row which is interesting for another reason: Langmuir was the first industrial scientist to win the Nobel Prize; another aspect of American science destined to become important.
It doesn’t take much for a quick mass exodus of top minds from a totalitarian regime or one with a disdain for science. What takes decades to build can disappear in a single decade: a lesson for our times.
In a research project I worked in, many years ago, we looked at the effect Nazism and WWII had on the European mathematics and logic community, devastating
Schrodinger and Pauli look like they’re in the middle of an argument about the interpretation of wave mechanics. You have to feel sorry for the guy standing between them.
I've never seen that in colour. Is it a modern regeneration, or have I just somehow missed the colour version before?
It is a rather recent remake in color, may be 3 years back
Clearly people know who all those in photo - can someone be kind enough to present a list of names?
Many thanks Andrew
I wonder if there ever has been a collection of more "brain power" ever assembled in one place?
And no Italians! The first Italian to be invited was Fermi, in 1930.
Is current WH administration doing enough to reverse this?
Color is startling - is Pauli the only one not looking at the camera? Heisenberg close to Bohr... interesting what a photo reveals.
No sweat, Rump will move it out... probably to Asia.
Resisting Nazism made America Great!
Wasn't Langmuir also American?
Irving Langmuir is sitting in the front row, and he was born in Brooklyn…
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