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05-09-2012, 11:55 PM
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Found a gem...
...on Google+.
A Swedish artist has colourised a famous black and white image:
http://i.imgur.com/ifAMi.jpg
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Originally Posted by Ahmed Zeeshan
This image is just mind-blowing. It was originally captured in 1927 at the Solvay Conference, attended by some of the most brilliant scientists in history. Notable attendees included Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Dirac and Louis de Broglie. More than half of the attendees went onto win the Nobel Prize in either Physics or Chemistry. Marie Curie actually won the prize in both fields. She remains the only scientist in history to have done so.
The original picture is black & white but a Swedish female artist successfully colorized it and posted it on reddit where it became an instant classic. Not only that, she's made it available on the internet for free.
This one definitely deserves to be shared further for the world to print and put up as a poster. A more epic gathering cannot be imagined.
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06-09-2012, 12:41 AM
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Look Up!
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That's an outstanding job to a fantastic photo. I can see why it became an instant classic.
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06-09-2012, 12:44 AM
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Her other work is amazing, too. I saw one where she converted Alexander Graham Bell into colour and it's remarkable.
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06-09-2012, 01:02 AM
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I wasn't expecting it to be so good, but it really is.
I believe the last line to be true: A more epic gathering cannot be imagined.
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06-09-2012, 08:34 AM
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ze frogginator
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Very cool. Most people in this shot gave their name to constants or units 
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06-09-2012, 09:19 AM
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Totally brilliant work - and what a role call!
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06-09-2012, 09:26 AM
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The sky is Messier here!
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Thanks for posting that. Newton said that if he could see further it was from standing on the shoulders of giants. These guys would have said that Newton was their giant on whose shoulders they stood on as our scientists today look back on this group as the giants on whose shoulders they have stood on...
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06-09-2012, 12:07 PM
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Attached are some details of those appearing in the photo, I could not find reference to Hersen and I'm not sure re the reference for Guye
Over half the people in the photo were awarded a Noble prize
Ref to Solvay Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference
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06-09-2012, 12:28 PM
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What an assembly of minds!
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06-09-2012, 12:37 PM
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Highest Observatory in Oz
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Yes, a momentous gathering that 
Only one woman, shame, imagine how far we would be now if the other half of our species had been as free and encouraged to study and do research back then 
Hmmm?....on close inspection, Eistein and Langevin look like they are scratching their bums, de Broglie looks particularly wavering and to me Heisenberg looks decidedly uncertain about where he actually is....?
Mike
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06-09-2012, 01:27 PM
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Schrodinger's looking for his cat, and Pauli's wondering what Schrodinger is looking at
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06-09-2012, 01:27 PM
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... and it looks like Schrodinger is in two minds while Pauli feels excluded. Is it just me or does it look like Bragg is the kind of guy to grate on you?
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06-09-2012, 01:34 PM
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Chopped its rear end off!
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Captain Picards' ancestor is there as well!!
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06-09-2012, 02:20 PM
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Support your local RFS
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Wow, what an amazing piece of history in that image.
Talk about a meeting of the minds.
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06-09-2012, 02:36 PM
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Lost in Space ....
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That is just so amazingly 'real' ...!!
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06-09-2012, 04:06 PM
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Great Sage == Heaven
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That's very nice
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06-09-2012, 04:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Larryp
What an assembly of minds!
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So Larry, if you change your avatar but I don't refresh my screen is the cat still there???
Last edited by AstralTraveller; 06-09-2012 at 06:05 PM.
Reason: rephrase
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06-09-2012, 06:17 PM
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Originally Posted by coldlegs
Captain Picards' ancestor is there as well!!
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He was the first one I recognised! Auguste Piccard has been a hero of mine since I was young. A pioneering high altitude balloonist, AND a pioneering deep ocean explorer.
Some remarkable people in that photo.
Cheers,
Jason.
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06-09-2012, 06:19 PM
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Ebotec Alpeht Sicamb
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Good colourising job on that one. I've got a print-out of the b&w version on my cubicle wall, I'll put this next to it.
Cheers
Steffen.
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06-09-2012, 06:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
So Larry, if you change your avatar but I don't refresh my screen is the cat still there???
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The cat's better looking than me!
Happy now?
Last edited by Larryp; 06-09-2012 at 07:16 PM.
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