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                10 years 11 months ago                #235
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This photograph was taken by Benjamin Couprie, on behalf of the International Institute for Physics in October 1927 at the 5th Solvay Conference on Electrons and photons.This year, the conference has hosted no fewer than 29 physicists including Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, or the great Albert Einstein
The participants, from back to front and from left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, I Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hans Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles -Eugene Guye, CTR Wilson, Owen Richardson.
    
    
    
            
            
            
            
                                
    
                                                
    
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The image of the week: 29 of the greatest minds in history together in one photograph
This photograph was taken by Benjamin Couprie, on behalf of the International Institute for Physics in October 1927 at the 5th Solvay Conference on Electrons and photons.This year, the conference has hosted no fewer than 29 physicists including Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, or the great Albert Einstein
The participants, from back to front and from left to right: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, I Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hans Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles -Eugene Guye, CTR Wilson, Owen Richardson.
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        Also, special hat off to Marie Curie who is the only woman who got two Nobel prizes, physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.  
   
 
    
            
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        November 25, 1944
The U.S. Marines vanquish at the battle of Peleliu
"The most difficult fight that the U.S. military encountered in the entire war."
            
    The U.S. Marines vanquish at the battle of Peleliu
"The bitterest battle of the war for the Marines."
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"The most difficult fight that the U.S. military encountered in the entire war."
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        Yeah, yeah, i'm late of four days... Indeed, we age...
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November 22, 1954
Creation of the French ALAT (ARMY LIGHT AVIATION)
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    So, special one...
November 22, 1954
Creation of the French ALAT (ARMY LIGHT AVIATION)
That deserved a small video, no ?
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                10 years 11 months ago                #240
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        Your video is cooler    
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