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    The Solvay Conferences (French: Congrès Solvay) have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry. They began with the historic...
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  • E. SOLVAY. Publiés par MM. P. LANGEVIN et M. de BROGLIE. Translated from the French, p. 114. Original Proceedings of the 1911 Solvay Conference published...
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  • Solvay is a Belgian multinational chemical company established in 1863, with its headquarters located in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. In 2015...
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    Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (French: [sɔlvɛ]; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Rebecq, he...
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    the Bohr radius.: 197  The first Solvay Conference, in 1911, was one of the first international physics conferences. Nine Nobel or future Nobel laureates...
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    was one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium. "Levensbericht...
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    scientists together for the first Solvay Conference. Q refers to quantum physics, which was discussed at the conference. QO is for company. On Friday, December...
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    quantum physics emerged, leading to its wider acceptance at the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927. By 1930 quantum mechanics had been further unified and formalized...
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    to Solvay (and houses the Solvay Conference). Leopold Park contains a number of historic buildings such as the Pasteur Institute, the former Solvay School...
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    with industrialist Ernest Solvay, and participated in the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Solvay Conferences. Herzen was a grandson of...
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    understanding of physics. Most of Bohr's version of the events held in the Solvay Conference in 1927 and other places was first written by Bohr decades later in...
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  • and poet Paolo Solvay, pseudonym of Luigi Batzella (1924–2008), Italian film director and actor Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open...
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  • Physical Society (APS) Soft Magnetic Materials Conference Solvay Conference by the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry STATPHYS by...
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  • Together they helped originate quantum mechanical theory. At the 1927 Solvay Conference, a dual talk by Max Born and Heisenberg declared "we consider quantum...
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    Island Conference, repeated in 1948 at the Solvay Conference. The latter did not appear in print until the Proceedings of the Solvay Conference, published...
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    nature of the neutron was a primary topic of discussion at the 7th Solvay Conference held in October 1933, attended by Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Lise Meitner...
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    October 1933, this new theory was presented to the Seventh Solvay Conference. The Solvay Conferences consisted of prominent scientists in the physics and chemistry...
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  • twice as large as the Bohr magneton in September 1911. At the First Solvay Conference in November that year, Paul Langevin obtained a value of e ℏ / ( 2...
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    through Enrico Fermi, who used it during a conference in Paris in July 1932 and at the Solvay Conference in October 1933, where Pauli also employed it...
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    the pilot wave theory at the 1927 Solvay Conference. However, Wolfgang Pauli raised an objection to it at the conference, saying that it did not deal properly...
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    the context they were measured in. In a paper presented at the Volta Conference at Como in September 1927, Bohr emphasised that Heisenberg's uncertainty...
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  • reference. Louis de Broglie presented his pilot wave theory at the 1927 Solvay Conference, after close collaboration with Schrödinger,[citation needed] who...
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    his 1911 paper in which the atomic nucleus is proposed. At the 1911 Solvay Conference, in the discussion of what could regulate energy differences between...
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    foreign Jewish home-wrecker. When the scandal broke, she was away at a conference in Belgium; on her return, she found an angry mob in front of her house...
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  • (2009-10-22). Quantum Theory at the Crossroads: Reconsidering the 1927 Solvay Conference. Cambridge University Press. pp. 31+33. ISBN 978-0-521-81421-8. Maxwell's...
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    in 1927 in Brussels, at the time of a Solvay Conference; in 1932 in Belgium, at the time of a cycle of conferences in Brussels; in California in January...
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  • was one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium. He was...
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  • organizing the quantum mechanics conference. The two decided to try to emulate the success of the early Solvay Conferences, and they consulted with Léon...
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    was one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium. In 1928...
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    one of the participants of the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics, that took place at the International Solvay Institute for Physics in Belgium. Thermodynamic...
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