Class of 1927 ....

[FlashDrive]

Class of 1927 ....

:atom:

[Wavytone]

Er... that is a WOW shot.

[casstony]

not a single decent football player in the lot of 'em...

[LewisM]

Shame William Bragg's father wasn't in the shot too - two brilliant men in the field of Xrays, and both Australian (well, Dad retained British citizenship). William's brother Robert was killed at Gallipoli.

Whatever happened to such brilliance...it seems we don't have the intelligentsia any more...well, apart from those working at making apps and other trivial things. We seem to have lost the big picture, and no one working on it to any extent either. Everything is about sport, movies and entertainment. No money in concerns that don't enhance one's play time or comfort...

[raymo]

I might have felt a tad intimidated if they were my class mates.
raymo

[GrahamL]

Thats going back which ones you col ?

[LewisM]

Col looks a bit like Paul Ehrenfest (3rd from left back row)

[FlashDrive]

I'm the Photographer .....:thumbsup: ...
Founder of the ' old boys ' club ..

[LewisM]

Thank God that's not a full body, full frontal shot

[FlashDrive]

Distinguish looking chap, isn't he ....:D

[Londoner]

Col, did they use your physog for KFC?

Mick

[taminga16]

I have had a print of this image on my refrigerator for the past 10 years, nothing like this has happened since 1927.

[julianh72]

Has there ever been such a massing of intellect in one place, at one time, before or since?

Some people are struck dumb in the presence of a movie star or sports star - but I think I would have been reduced to a gibbering idiot in that company!

[FlashDrive]

Probably not Julianh ..... brilliant minds indeed .

Where are the Brilliant Minds of today ...:shrug: ... not in Canberra that's for sure ( That Big White Building - Adult Day Care Center )

[AndyG]

Such people would see the ideas/language as totally foreign, and pass by in blissful ignorance. "Funniest Home Videos" is a documentary, after all :P

[pmrid]

By my quick check, I count 19 Nobels:
Langmuir: 1932 Chemistry
Planck. 1918 Physics
Curie. 1903 Physics, 1911 Chemistry
Lorentz. 1902 Physics
Einstein. 1921 Physics
Wilson 1927 Physics
Richardson 1928 Physics
Debye 1936 Chemistry
Bragg L 1915 Physics
Bragg W 1915 Physics
Dirac 1933 Physics
Compton 1937 Physics
de Broglie 1929 Physics
Born 1959 Physics
Bohr 1922 Physics
Heisenbery 1932 Physics
Pauli 1945 Physics
Schrodinger 1933 Physics


Some class; some photo!

Peter

[julianh72]

Trinity College, Cambridge can boast a total of 32 Nobel Laureates from their Alumni (including several of the Solvay attendees) - but I don't think they ever got them all into one room at the same time!

https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/famous-trinity-alumni/nobel-laureates/

[LewisM]

And these days we give Nobel prizes to Presidents who have done nothing...

If Trump gets one, the Nobel instantly becomes a worthless prize. It was ad enough Obama getting one.

[AstralTraveller]

You're somewhat out of date. Henry (bomb 'em to the stone age) Kissinger got one decades ago.

[AstralTraveller]

I've got one in my office. Helps put some of the academics around here in perspective ;).







As one of our students said: 'You could cook an egg on all that brain-power.'


And they were gathered to discuss the interactions between photons and electrons - nothing relevant to the running of our modern society :P.