Solvay Conference

The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, located in Brussels, were founded by the Belgian physicist Ernest Solvay in 1912, following the legendary invitation-only 1911 Conseil Solvay on Radiation and the Quanta, the first world physics conference. The Solvay Conferences (Conseils Solvay) since then have been devoted to outstanding preeminent open problems in both physics and chemistry. The Institutes coordinate conferences, workshops, seminars, and colloquia.

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Brussels - Belgian - Physicist - Ernest Solvay - 1912 - 1911 - Physics - Chemistry

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Hendrik A. Lorentz was chairman of the first Solvay Conference held in Brussels in the autumn of 1911. This conference looked at the problems of having two approaches, namely the classical physics and quantum theory. Albert Einstein was the youngest physicist there. Other members of the Solvay Congress included such luminaries as Marie Curie and Henri Poincaré.

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Hendrik A. Lorentz - Classical physics - Quantum theory - Albert Einstein - Physicist - Marie Curie - Henri Poincaré

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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. The illustrious participants are as follows: A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, Ed. Herzen, Th. De Donder, E. Schrödinger, E. Verschaffelt, W. Pauli, W. Heisenberg, R.H. Fowler, L. Brillouin, P. Debye, M. Knudsen, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramer, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L. de Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr, I. Langmuir, M. Planck, Mme. Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, P. Langevin, Ch. E. Guye, C.T.R. Wilson, and O.W. Richardson.

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1927 - Albert Einstein - Niels Bohr - Heisenberg - Uncertainty Principle - Bohr-Einstein debates - Nobel Prize - A. Piccard - E. Henriot - P. Ehrenfest - Ed. Herzen - Th. De Donder - E. Schrödinger - E. Verschaffelt - W. Pauli - R.H. Fowler - L. Brillouin - P. Debye - M. Knudsen - W.L. Bragg - H.A. Kramer - P.A.M. Dirac - A.H. Compton - L. de Broglie - M. Born - I. Langmuir - M. Planck - Mme. Curie - H.A. Lorentz - P. Langevin - Ch. E. Guye - C.T.R. Wilson - O.W. Richardson

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