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ursangnome) wrote2012-09-05 10:58 am
ursangnome) wrote2012-09-05 10:58 am
Critical Mass of Brainpower
In October 1927, the Fifth Solvay International Conference was held. From it, there's a semi-famous picture of many of the greatest minds in physics and chemistry of the day*, who had gathered to discuss that new and interesting thing: quantum mechanics.
A redditor (called "mygrapefuit") has done a major work in colorizing the original black and white image, and is making her version of it available for free.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?9tcdr7dnmty8blr
*Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Compton, deBroglie, Plank, Lorentz - half the collection eventually got Nobel Prizes (and Mme Curie is still the only scientist to have ever won the prize in two different fields!)...
A redditor (called "mygrapefuit") has done a major work in colorizing the original black and white image, and is making her version of it available for free.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?9tcdr7dnmty8blr
*Einstein, Curie, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Compton, deBroglie, Plank, Lorentz - half the collection eventually got Nobel Prizes (and Mme Curie is still the only scientist to have ever won the prize in two different fields!)...