bullshit I've made huge breakthroughs in microwaving popcorn so only a few kernels don't get popped
胡扯,我在微波炉爆米花方面已经取得了重大突破,现在基本没几个没爆开的了。
Akzifer481 赞2018/3/26
The one with the glow of radioactive material
这个身上自带放射性物质的荧光感。
The_Original_Gronkie19 赞2018/3/26
It would have been hilarious if the colorizer had given her a slight glow. If it had been me, i really doubt i could have resisted. I'd at least make one copy with and another without.
her husband also got one, and her daughter got one, and her daughter's husband one too.
她老公也拿过一个,她女儿也拿过一个,她女儿的老公也拿了一个。
BoomFrog82 赞2018/3/26
Wow, pressure is on for any kids her daughter had.
哇,她以后要是生了孩子,那压力可就大了。
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her grand daughter is still alive if a recall
如果我没记错的话,她孙女现在还活着呢。
lawnflame75 赞2018/3/26
and shes got a great personality.
而且她性格超棒的。
cincynancy17 赞2018/3/26
And her great great great granddaughter is doin fine
还有她那玄孙女也过得挺好的。
Jarahkii47 赞2018/3/26
Not true, although she was the first to ever win two Nobel prizes. From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates#Laureates):
>Six laureates have received more than one prize; of the six, the International Committee of the Red Cross has received the Nobel Peace Prize three times, more than any other. UNHCR has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice. Also the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Bardeen twice, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Frederick Sanger. Two laureates have been awarded twice but not in the same field: Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry) and Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace). Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911.
Oh shit my bad. I didn't know other ppl had won 2 also. I'd argue the nobel peace prize is a little different but still I was wrong. Thanks for clarifying
You're both off. She is FIRST woman to win one, ONLY woman to win two, ONLY PERSON to win TWO DIFFERENT sciences. The point is people have won twice in a scientific field. Their specialty. It is unheard of to be intelligent enough in two fiends to win a Nobel in both. That's why it's impressive.
To be honest I think one Nobel prize is quite impressive really
说实话,我觉得能拿一个诺贝尔奖就已经够牛的了。
ijustneedan59 赞2018/3/26
It’s two in different fields, isn’t it?
她是在两个不同领域都拿了,对吧?
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Ya to my understanding. Chemistry and Physics
对,我也这么理解。化学和物理。
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One for her radiation work, one for finding Radon (and polonium)
一个是凭她的放射性研究拿的,另一个是因为发现了氡(以及钋)。
Empros16 赞2018/3/26
Curie was a truly fascinating human.
居里夫人真的是个超迷人的人。
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It took me like 45 seconds to find her omg. I was seriously about to Google "Marie s curie was a woman right?"
我大概花了45秒才找到她,天呐。我当时真差点要去谷歌搜“玛丽·居里确实是个女的,对吧?”
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The original Rick and Morty fan met-up
这是最初版的《瑞克和莫蒂》粉丝聚会现场。
donfelicedon21,766 赞2018/3/26
Marie Curie must have been one hell of a genius to be the only woman invited to a conference such as this in that time
居里夫人得是个多牛叉的天才,才能在那个年代成为唯一受邀参加这种会议的女性。
zetxb250986 赞2018/3/26
Check out Albert Einstein’s first wife. You’d be in for a surprise.
去看看爱因斯坦的第一任妻子吧。绝对会让你大吃一惊。
heisgone40 赞2018/3/26
She had received the Nobel Prize of Physics 24 years before this photo.
她在照片拍摄前24年就已经拿过诺贝尔物理学奖了。
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Lol she was the first to win 2 Nobel prizes too I think
笑死,我记得她还是第一个拿到两届诺贝尔奖的人呢。
HedgeOfGlory966 赞2018/3/26
She's got a really interesting story, you should check it out. She probably wasn't much of a genius, really (by the standards of other geniuses, at least). But she was exceptionally single-minded, obsessive and really pretty odd. She fought her way into the male-dominated world of elite science more through strength of will than anything, sadly the same strength of will seemed to make her ignore the (many, many) signs that the work she was doing would lead to her death.
She lived to 66. Thats not THAT bad. Especially considering her work.
她活到了66岁,其实也还行吧。考虑到她的工作性质,这并不算太糟糕。
HedgeOfGlory487 赞2018/3/26
No, indeed. Apparently lots of lab assisstants and stuff fell seriously ill or died. Seems like there's a good chance she was naturally highly resistant to radiation poisoning.
I don't think that's the case. I think she did tons of very physically tough, monotonous work - she's famous for it. She just seemed to live longer than everyone else.
Lmao. This woman pushes the boundaries of science, wins two Nobel prizes in an era when women couldnt even vote. Spawns a family of geniuses, only to die from being overly dedicated to her work. Still gets shit talked 100 years later on some random internet forum.
Yeah, but she never watched any Rick and Morty I think the doubts about her intelligence are more than valid
对啊,但她从来没看过《瑞克和莫蒂》。
我觉得人们质疑她的智商完全没毛病。
iUsedtoHadHerpes28 赞2018/3/26
This is reddit, after all.
再怎么说,这可是 Reddit 啊。
GetOffMyLawn_22 赞2018/3/26
Her husband assisted her and that was about it.
全靠她老公从旁协助,也就那样吧。
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I just looked up her husband and saw one of their kids just died in 2007.... 1904-2007. Impressive.
我刚查了她丈夫的资料,发现他们有个孩子在2007年去世了……
1904-2007。真牛啊。
GetOffMyLawn_17 赞2018/3/26
That would be Eve. She wrote a sanitized biography of her parents, leaving out Marie's affair with another professor after Pierre was killed. I have a couple of first editions of that. Note that Eve did not go into science unlike her sister who died in her 50s of cancer, probably caused by radiation exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie
> Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF that's one decorated family
Her husband was pretty busy pursuing his own separate Nobel Prize.
她老公当时正忙着追求他自己的诺贝尔奖呢。
SealTeamRick13136 赞2018/3/26
Maybe she was just a ghoul in disguise?
没准她只是个披着人皮的恶鬼?
cholocaust244 赞2018/3/26
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
祸哉!那些以房连房、以地连地,以致不留余地,好使自己独自居住在地上的人!
HedgeOfGlory108 赞2018/3/26
Perhaps, but she was exceptionally determined, even for someone in her position. Look her up - she spent thousands and thousands of hours stirring giant pots with big iron rods, a very physically hard job, to separate out the stuff she was interested in (radium, polonium) from the raw materials she had. She wasn't much like the idea we might have of a chemist - her husband more neatly fits that description - she just would not take "it can't be done" for an answer, and endeavored to dedicate an obscene amount of her life (and one of her daughters got into it to) to figuring out the properties of these materials.
As a chemist I'll say that stirring shit for hours is exactly my idea of what chemistry lab work is.
身为一名化学家,我得说,搅那玩意儿几个小时,这简直就是我对化学实验室工作的真实写照。
IanCal75 赞2018/3/26
Her husband was also nuts. After hearing that someone else had suffered a burn after exposing their skin to radium salt: > In order to test the results that had just been announced by F. Giesel, Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium during several hours. This resulted in a lesion resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: “I love it, but I owe it a grudge.” Though really, all these people sound a bit nuts when it comes to the self experimentation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891197/
她丈夫也是个疯子。在听说有人因为皮肤接触镭盐而受伤后:
> 为了验证 F. 吉塞尔(F. Giesel)刚刚公布的研究结果,皮埃尔·居里自愿将手臂暴露在镭的辐射下达数小时之久。这导致皮肤出现了一处类似烧伤的损伤,伤口逐渐恶化,花了几个月才愈合。亨利·贝克勒尔(Henri Becquerel)也曾因为把装有镭盐的玻璃管放在马甲口袋里,而意外遭到了类似的灼伤。他跑来告诉我们镭的这种害处,语气里既兴奋又无奈地惊叹道:“我爱死它了,但我又恨透了它。”
说实话,一提到这种拿自己做实验的事儿,这帮人听起来都挺疯的。
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891197/
HedgeOfGlory22 赞2018/3/26
Yeah, seems like a different time! I guess people were less wary about the harm that could be done invisibly before we discovered radiation. It'd be perfectly reasonable to think that the burn was just that - a burn - which is relatively safe really.
You will be surprised to hear that those are actually very common traits amongst most successful people. There are many many many people out there with IQs of over 160 whose names you will never hear because they don't possess the qualities Marie Curie had.
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Yeah, 2 Nobel Prizes but probably not a genius. Right. Not sure how being "kinda odd" or obsessive, or tenacious disqualifies you from being a genius. Hard to imagine why you would want to reduce the accomplishments of one of the few women to rock at science in the early years. Like, you know this whole "nah, not a genius-- she just wouldn't take no for an answer" is exactly the narrative people have used over and over to diminish women's accomplishments, right? I don't really know what your intentions were, and whatever, this is Reddit, but can we just let an amazing woman be an amazing woman? Like for one second? Without doubting there source of her amazing accomplishments. Like, just once?
Definitely. Winning a Nobel prize in 2 different fields of study... I think speaks for itself.
绝对是。在两个不同的学科领域拿到诺贝尔奖……我觉得这本身就说明一切了。
Tattycakes22 赞2018/3/26
I saw the tomb of Marie and Pierre Curie in Paris just this year. Someone had left flowers, and a card thanking them for their hard work and discoveries. I found myself quite moved that their contribution was still being recognised and appreciated.
As a woman in nuclear physics I have to admit I was pretty emotional visiting the Pantheon in Paris and seeing Marie’s grave. It’s not just her contributions to science, it was her indomitable will to excel as a woman in science and how she paved the way for others.
He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.
勤于寻求善的人,必得恩惠;但寻求恶的人,恶必临到他身上。
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Notable mentions off the top of my head: Schrodinger - the cat/not cat Heisenberg - the uncertainty principle Bohr - atomic structure and quantum theory Planck - energy quanta (em energy defined) de Broglie - wave-particle duality and matter waves Einstein - often misquoted Lorentz - Probably ran this whole thing Curie - all around incredible person and recipient of 2 nobel prizes, seriously, just look her up
Don't forget the Dirac equation and Pauli exclusion principle.
别忘了狄拉克方程和泡利不相容原理。
notlogic199 赞2018/3/26
And Compton Scattering, and the Langevin equation... seriously, just about anyone in this photo has had a major impact on modern physics and chemistry, and their work remains relevant to this day.
Verschaffelt was a secretary to the conference and was chosen because of his excellent language skills in German, Dutch and French as well as being a respected professor at a Belgian university. The whole article is kinda ironic since the he was chosen for his language skills and the author claims that there is no information about him on Wikipedia yet it is easily available on the German version of his site.
langmuir - one of the nobel price recipients and a name every chemist knows by heart. best known for is work in transport mechanisms and adsorption debye - one of the nobel price recipients and a true great in the field of electrochemistry. lorentz - incredible mathematician, builder of the foundation of special relativity and best known to every student ever for the weird shit you do with your hands when trying to figure out a magnetic field. knudsen - i personally know him best in regards to knudsen-diffusion and the knudsen-zahl
about curie don't forget that her husband was also the recipient of he Nobel prize it was both of them that got the prize not her only.
关于居里夫人,别忘了她老公也是诺贝尔奖得主,奖项是发给他们俩的,不是她一个人拿的。
jimithelizardking78 赞2018/3/26
He won the Nobel Prize in Physics along with her, but she also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry herself. Truly an amazing person.
他是跟她一起拿的诺贝尔物理学奖,但后来她自己又拿了一次诺贝尔化学奖。真的是个了不起的大神。
ReCursing28 赞2018/3/26
For one of them, the second one was just her I believe. IIRC the first one was the first time a woman had received a Nobel prize, and the second was the first time a woman had received a Nobel prize solo (not to discredit her husband, he was undoubtedly brilliant too, but he was a little dead by then)
Everyone gets the initials of their first names, except Curie. She's just a Madame.
每个人拿到的都是名字首字母缩写,就居里夫人是个例外,她就叫“夫人”(Madame)。
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Damn I thought the guy second from left at the back was Planck, they look alike
靠,我本来还以为后排左二那是普朗克呢,他俩长得真像。
DigimonIsBetter448 赞2018/3/26
> they look alike Sapiophobe!
> 他俩长得真像
智障(Sapiophobe)!
MilkMan009624 赞2018/3/26
I literally rolled my eyes at this
我看到这儿真的翻了个大白眼。
GuruMeditation18 赞2018/3/26
It's most likely whoever made the name portion screwed up and mistook M. Curie for Madame Curie instead of Marie Curie.
这多半是搞名字那哥们儿弄岔劈了,把“M. Curie”当成“Madame Curie”(居里夫人)了,而不是 Marie Curie(玛丽·居里)。
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Well there's also the fact that "M." is the abbreviation in French for "Monsieur" ....
还有个事实是,“M.”在法语里是“Monsieur”(先生)的缩写……
pink_ego_box59 赞2018/3/26
When she died, most French newspaper titled "the death of Mme Pierre Curie". At this time, as a woman, doesn't matter if you had two Nobel prizes, you were just " Mrs. Your Husband"
Wolfgang Pauli isn’t that bad looking in the photo
沃尔夫冈·泡利照片里看着也没那么丑嘛。
DeviIsADV0CATE18 赞2018/3/26
Ma boi put on some weight in his later years tho
我兄弟晚年确实是胖了点儿啊。
fightlinker45 赞2018/3/26
Up until this moment Shrodinger was and wasn't in the photo for me.
在这一刻之前,薛定谔对我来说既在这张照片里又不在照片里。
LessThanUnimpressed21 赞2018/3/26
I was uncertain about Heisenberg as well.
我对海森堡那块儿也不太确定。
flintforfire579 赞2018/3/26
This is amazing. Would people of that time have known how incredible this group of scientists were? Is there a group today that would be as revered as these scientists? I’m not even into physics and I recognize many of these names.
Even Harald Bohr enjoyed some fame, partially because he was quite a good soccer player and a mathematician but partially he was the brother of Niels. Oh yes, they knew how big Niels Bohr was.
I think what helped this particular group of individuals was simply timing. They were working at a time when we had finally gotten enough technical ability to discover that Newtonian physics was wrong and needed fixing. I mean, what are the odds that so many uniquely brilliant people happened to all be born at the end of the 19th century like this? It's not that this generation was uniquely brilliant – there were just as many equally brilliant people in the generations before and the generations since – it's just that they happened to be working at a time when some of the most critical advances in science were suddenly possible. We see this with mathematics around the turn of the 18th century – Newton, Euler, Fermat, the Bernoullis, ... . We see it with electricity in the 19th century – Maxwell, Coulomb, Joule, Ohm, ... . Being born at a time when a new area is opening up means all of the critical new ideas can be named after you.
Its true in modern times too. Wozniak, Jobs, Gates, Sergey, the oracle dude, Elon, Netflix guy, Zuckerberg, Bezos. Some of them rode the advent of the PC. Others the advent of the internet. It really underscores that success is equal parts timing and skill, some may even argue more timing that skill.
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A lot of work is cumulative. Knowledge builds knowledge.
很多工作都是积累出来的。知识总是建立在既有知识之上的。
SeaBrokenheartedness94 赞2018/3/26
I get sad whenever I see posts like this, because it distorts our understanding of how knowledge progresses. What does it even mean to say something is the most "intelligent picture ever taken"? Do we define genius by having won the Nobel Prize? What about disciplines that don't get awarded that? What about opportunity and the vagaries of social communities?
Do we revere those who have made the biggest contributions? How do we weigh contributions of the past against those of the present? Just to take one thing for example: this photo was taken in 1927, in between two major world conflicts. What happened to those who didn't survive past 1918? What about those who died in subsequent years, or were oppressed? Society tends to think that the most deserving rise to the top, but in my life, with what I've seen, it's anything but. I mean no disrespect to those in the photos, but I get frustrated in the way we kind of mythologize things. To me I see a photo of what would have been an interesting meeting, with interesting, intelligent individuals, who found themselves in a special place in history. I think to say much more than that does a disservice to those who were less fortunate.
A lot of these people work wouldn't be possible without the previous work of mathematicians, for which there isn't a Nobel prize, for example. Not only that, but the average layman is completely unaware of great names in mathematics, which is a shame.
I think your heart's in the right place, but you also need to acknowledge that shit happens. Humanity has to work with reality, and sometimes that sucks.
我觉得你的出发点是好的,但你也得承认,操蛋的事儿总会发生。人类必须面对现实,而现实有时就是这么烂。
roncool47 赞2018/3/26
These people are there because they worked exceptionally hard and contributed an exceptional amount to humanity's understanding of science. Their work while theoretically very interesting has practical applications in every area of life around us, satellites floating up in space delivering my message to Reddit are kept afloat by calculations derived by these men. But I do get your argument in the sense that the "Great Man" Theory tends to discount the work that other people did, the work that these people based their work on. But except for that, there is nothing wrong with celebrating greatness. Sure tim may not be as intellectually gifted, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to recognise josh for topping the class, he put in hard work and recognising his effort incentivises others to work harder, so they can also experience what josh experiences, sure maybe tim can never physically achieve that and all we end up with is decades of anxiety for him but we all reap the benefits of human progress in the form of higher standards of living and insane advances in technology.
这些人之所以能走到今天,是因为他们付出了极其艰苦的努力,对人类科学认知的贡献也是卓越的。他们的工作虽然在理论上非常有趣,但在我们生活的方方面面都有实际应用,比如漂在太空里、把我的消息传送到 Reddit 的卫星,靠的就是这些人推算出来的公式才没掉下来。
但我确实懂你的论点,从“英雄史观”(Great Man Theory)的角度看,这种说法确实容易抹杀其他人的功劳,也就是那些为这些大牛们打下基础的人所做的工作。
不过除此之外,赞美伟大之处并没有什么错。当然,Tim 可能没那么聪明,但这并不意味着我就不能表彰 Josh 拿了全班第一,他付出了努力,而认可他的付出能激励其他人更努力,这样他们也能体会到 Josh 的那种成就感。没错,可能 Tim 拼了老命也达不到那个高度,最后只剩下几十年的焦虑,但我们所有人都能享受到人类进步的红利,比如更高的生活水平和疯狂的科技飞跃。
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josefshaw223 赞2018/3/26
And another complaining about reddit. Yes, just about your standard thread really.
又来一个吐槽 Reddit 的。没错,这帖子简直就是典中典了。
bram272785 赞2018/3/26
I'm guessing the racists in this thread don't know that a huge portion of the scientists in this photo were Jewish.
我猜这帖子里那些种族主义者肯定不知道,这张照片里有很大一部分科学家都是犹太人。
s_o_0_n24 赞2018/3/26
There's five by my count. I wouldn't say that's huge.
我数了数有五个。我可不会管这叫“很大一部分”。
bram272768 赞2018/3/26
5/29= 17.2% of attendees 4/17= 23.5% of Nobel Prize Winners This is while Jews were 0.7% of the population. So only like 30x over-represented.
Has anybody mentioned the Hitler mustaches yet? Because I was wondering when those stopped being fashionable.
有人提到那些希特勒式小胡子了吗?因为我一直纳闷那玩意儿到底是啥时候不再流行的。
Priamosish24 赞2018/3/26
I guess it's all Charlie Chaplin's fault.
我猜这都怪查理·卓别林。
OtterpusRex495 赞2018/3/26
We each hold all of their collective knowledge in the palm of our hand.
我们每个人都把他们所有的集体知识攥在手心里。
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Without any ability to comprehend it.
却压根儿没那本事去消化它。
Akzifer137 赞2018/3/26
And then there's one deep comment. Casual redditing.
然后这就冒出一条深沉的评论。随手逛逛红迪而已。
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The most intelligent picture ever taken: Participants of the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. 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. **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.
______________ 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. 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. 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.
Do you know in what language they would communicate? French? Im guessing not everybody could speak English that well back then, especially with uncommon physics terms
German was also widely used, especially in physics, until WWII. My guess is that would jave been the primary scientific language, but tat French and English would also have been used at least to some extent. I don't have the time to look it up myself, but it would definitely be interesting to see a list of the participants with their nationalities, maybe their places of residence at the time (maybe even earlier + later as well), native language, and other languages known (at the very least what language they published in). A lot of Germans in the list at least, I think.
I can't be bothered to go to quite that much effort, but here's a starting point: - Auguste Piccard, Swiss - Emile Henriot, French - Paul Ehrenfest, Austrian/Dutch - Edouard Herzen, Belgian - Theophile de Donder, Belgian - Erwin Schrodinger, Austrian (Nobel Prize Winner) - Jules-Emile Verschaffelt, Belgian - Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian/Swiss (NPW) - Werner Heisenberg, German (NPW) - Ralph H. Fowler, British - Leon Brillouin, French - Peter Debye, Dutch/American (NPW) - Martin Knudsen, Danish - Lawrence Bragg, Austrian/British (NPW) - Hans Kramers, Dutch - Paul Dirac, English (NPW) - Arthur Compton, American (NPW) - Louis de Broglie, French (NPW) - Max Born, German (NPW) - Neils Bohr, Danish (NPW) - Irving Langmuir, American (NPW) - Max Planck, German (NPW) - Marie Curie, Polish/French (NPW) - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch (NPW) - Albert Einstein, German (NPW) - Paul Langevin, French - Charles-Eugene Guye, Swiss - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, British (NPW) - Owens Willans Richardson, British (NPW) So after all that effort, and with all those Swiss and Belgian fellas in the list, I've got no clue whether German or French (or possibly English) would have been the dominant language. So I did what I probably should have done in the first place and googled it. Turns out, the official language was French but participants used French, German, and English between each other, at least going by this [reasonably well-sourced post](https://www.quora.com/Which-language-did-they-speak-at-the-1927-Solvay-Conference-English-or-French).
Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli were 25-25-27 respectively at the time of the meeting. Imagine being there with worlds greatest minds when you're in your mid-to-late 20-ies
Over Einstien's right shoulder is the strangest physicist you probably never heard of. At age 31 in 1933, [Paul Dirac](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac) won the Nobel Prize. And at the time, he was the youngest person ever to receive that honor. His work figuring out the mathematical equations that describe the universe is right up there with the work of Einstein in terms of its importance and elegance. Ask someone on the street if they've ever heard of Paul Dirac, and the answer probably is, no. The reason? Well, it probably has a lot to do with Dirac himself, by most accounts, a strange man. His story is explained [last segment](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xuh17e?start=1944) (32:44 mark) of one of the more entertaining and interesting documentaries of current science, [Everything and Nothing](https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/everything-and-nothing/). Well worth the watch.
在爱因斯坦的右肩后方,站着你可能从未听说过的最古怪的物理学家。1933年,年仅31岁的保罗·狄拉克(Paul Dirac)获得了诺贝尔奖。当时,他是获此殊荣的最年轻的人。他在推导描述宇宙的数学方程方面所做的工作,其重要性和优雅程度完全可以与爱因斯坦比肩。你在街上随便问个人是否听过保罗·狄拉克,答案很可能是否定的。原因呢?好吧,这大概和他本人有很大关系,据大多数人描述,他是个怪人。
他的故事在《万物与虚无》(Everything and Nothing)这部当下科学界最有趣、最引人入胜的纪录片之一的最后一段(32分44秒处)里有详细讲述。非常值得一看。
FunnyMan3595142 赞2018/3/26
> 'Why do you dance?' Dirac asked his companion. 'When there are nice girls, it is a pleasure,' Heisenberg replied. Dirac pondered this notion, then blurted out: 'But, Heisenberg, how do you know beforehand that the girls are nice?' Well, I guess we know what the Dirac Uncertainty Principle would be.
I recommend "The Strangest Man"--a well-written biography of Dirac. The title is from a quote by Bohr: "Of all the people who have come to my lab, Dirac was the strangest man." Dirac was considered on par with Newton, both in eccentricity and ability. When Richard Feynman came along, he was called "a second Dirac, only this time human." My favorite Dirac story is about when he was sitting with some collegues who were discussing things they had invented. Dirac was silent, like usual. He very rarely spoke. Earlier in his career he had invented a mathematical notation that involved the bra and the ket (after bracket). Out of nowhere, Dirac suddenly shouts: "I invented the bra!", leaving his collegues astounded and erupting into laughter.
He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for 37 years - the same chair held by among others Newton, Babbage, Hawking, and in at least one possible future Data.
Marvel: Infinity war is the most ambitious crossover event in history Me:
漫威:《复仇者联盟:无限战争》是影史上最雄心勃勃的联动大事件。
我:
the_great_gabski29 赞2018/3/26
So many moustaches.
I wish more men had a good moustace!
这么多胡子。
真希望有更多男人能留出一撇好看的胡子!
10art116 赞2018/3/26
The mustache on the far left, center row is just reich
左边那一排中间的胡子,简直是纳粹范儿(reich)。
shoaibnasiri23 赞2018/3/26
Squad goals
绝对的神仙组合。
LOLMrTeacherMan21 赞2018/3/26
If they’re so smart, how come they are all dead?
如果他们真的那么聪明,怎么全都死翘翘了?
biscuit36920 赞2018/3/26
They all look like they could pass as an evil villaine in any mid eighties action film.
他们看起来个个都能在八十年代中期的动作片里演大反派。
King_Bonio19 赞2018/3/26
If you're interested in knowing the stories of some of the people here, the book The Age Of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn by Louisa Gilder taught me a lot about the characters and stories of some of these people. I particularly remember the story of Heisenberg and Bohr. Strongly recommended.
如果你有兴趣了解在座各位的故事,路易莎·吉尔德(Louisa Gilder)写的《纠缠时代:量子物理学重生之时》(*The Age Of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn*)这本书让我学到了很多关于这些人物及其经历的事情。我特别记得海森堡和玻尔的故事。强烈推荐。
Marlin_23016 赞2018/3/26
The guy on the far left looks like hitler
最左边那个家伙长得像希特勒。
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Would sitting or generally being in such close proximity to Marie Cutie pose any health risks considering her exposure to radiation?
考虑到玛丽·居里受到的辐射影响,坐在她旁边或者离她那么近,会有健康风险吗?
MrFrazzleFace14 赞2018/3/26
Pictures like this make me wonder just how many absolutely brilliant women there were in the early 1900's that simply didn't have the opportunity to make waves like these men did.
Einstein: - I think they took a good picture, relatively speaking. Heisenberg: - Maybe, maybe not. Schrodinger: - We won't really know until we develop the picture.
Marie Curie was a real ground breaker in so many ways (e.g. TWO Nobel prizes). She was an amazing woman and she, quite literally gave her life for science.