Physics Concepts and Definitions

The international physics conference that was convened in Brussels by Belgian chemical magnate Ernest Solvay in 1911 was perhaps the most formidable gathering of scientists ever. Most of those pictured are Nobel laureates. Left to right, standing: Victor Goldschmidt, Max Planck, Rubens, Somerfeld, Lindemann, Louis Victor De Broglie, Knudsen, Hasenohrl, Hostelet, Herzen, James Hopwood Jeans, Ernest Rutherford, Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes, Albert Einstein and Paul Langevin. Left to right, seated at table: Walther Nernst, Marcel Louis Brillouin, Ernest Solvay, Hendrik Lorentz, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Wilhelm Wien, Madame Marie Curie and Jules Henri Poincare..

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