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Deutsch: Solvay-Konferenz, 1927 (Thema: Neu entwickelte Quanten-Theorie)

English: 1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photograph by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium.

From back to front and from left to right :

Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin,

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

Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson

This picture is also available with names at the bottom.

Français : Participants au Congrès Solvay de 1927 sur la mécanique quantique. Photographie de Benjamin Couprie pour le compte de l'Institut international de physique Solvay, Parc Léopold, Bruxelles, Belgique.

De l'arrière vers l'avant et de gauche à droite :

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

Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson

Cette photo est aussi publiée avec le nom des participants sous celle-ci.

中文（简体）‎: 1927年索尔维会议 http://w3.pppl.gov/~hammett/courses/gpp1/intro/solvay1927.html 摄影：Benjamin Couprie于比利时布鲁塞尔索尔维国际物理研究所

Date

1927

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Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique de Solvay

Benjamin Couprie
Alternative names	Benj Couprie
Description	photographer
Date of birth/death	before 1895	after 1933
Work location	Brussels, Belgium

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