Mark Bernstein: Going To Conferences
Bernstein illustrates his argument by describing the photo below, which brought to my attention that so many these famous scientists were contemporaries.
Theres a picture in the lobby of the Hotel Metropole in Brussels of the attendees at the first Solvay conference in 1911. Madame Curie is sitting next to Henri Poincare they are both examining a paper and its more interesting than the group photo. Behind them, a shockingly young Al Einstein is paying more attention to the photographer. Nernst is there, and Rutherford, Lorentz, Planck, de Broglie, Brillouin, Langevin.