Don't stop at their mine a nothing chafouine, to the title learned of the colloquium " Electrons and photons ", or from the fact that, on the 29 personalities photo taken, 17 have won a Nobel prize : the photo above, taken in 1927 in the parc Léopold in Brussels, brings together probably the band of scientists the most rock'n'roll of the history of physics. From the whole of Europe, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Göttingen, they would meet every four years in Brussels, most of the time at the Institute of physiology, but also in the salons of Art nouveau of the hotel L...

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