Today I learnt About SOLVAY CONFERENCE
While I was surfing my Face book account i just saw this incredible picture above. I was about to comment “So my thinkers in one picture”. But that’s the one appreciation for the dead people who don’t even know about the existence of “FACEBOOK”. Now i thought that the picture was taken from the university where all these people are did their studies. Then somehow i could able to remember the history’s of those people in the photo, where lorentz is from LONDON, Enistein is from GERMANY how could they study together?… oh my god?.. iam such a fool, so i thought to find a relation ship between the persons in the picture by Google and found Some incredible facts Which i would like to BLOG. They are here as follows.
The International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry, located in Brussels, were founded by the Belgian industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1912, following the historic invitation-only 1911 Conseil Solvay, considered a turning point in the world of physics. The Institutes coordinate conferences, workshops, seminars, and colloquia.
Following the initial success of 1911, the Solvay Conferences (Conseils Solvay) have been devoted to outstanding preeminent open problems in both physics and chemistry. The usual schedule is every three years, but there have been larger gaps.
First Conference
Hendrik A. Lorentz was chairman of the first Solvay Conference held in Brussels in the autumn of 1911. The subject was Radiation and the Quanta. This conference looked at the problems of having two approaches, namely the classical physics and quantum theory. Albert Einstein was the second youngest physicist present (the youngest one was Lindemann). Other members of the Solvay Congressincluded such luminaries as Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Henri Poincaré. (See image for attendee list.)
Third Conference The first Solvay Conference following World War I, most German scientists were barred from attending. In protest to this action, Albert Einstein, himself a citizen and a vocal supporter of the infant Weimar Republic, declined his invitation to attend the conference where most of his countrymen were barred.
Fifth Conference
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.) 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie, who alone among them, had won Nobel Prizes in two separate scientific disciplines.
This conference was also the culmination of the struggle between Einstein and the scientific realists, who wanted strict rules of scientific method as laid out by Charles Peirce and Karl Popper, versus Bohr and the instrumentalists, who wanted looser rules based on outcomes. Starting at this point, the instrumentalists won, instrumentalism having been seen as the norm ever since, although the debate has been actively continued by the likes of Alan Musgrave.