Solvay Physics Conference, 1933

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SOLVAY PHYSICS CONFERENCE
Brussels, Belgium (October 1933)
Resources: Photo Gallery

The Solvay Physics Conference, held in Brussels, Belgium, October 22-29, 1933. Attendees included two future key Manhattan Project scientists (Fermi and Lawrence), the future head of the Nazi atomic bomb program (Heisenberg), and numerous leading pre-war physicists. A partial list of those attending:

	Niels Bohr (seated, third from left)
	James Chadwick (seated, farthest right)
	J. B. Cockroft (middle row, third from right)
	Marie Curie (seated, fifth from left)
	Enrico Fermi (middle row, fifth from left)
	Werner Heisenberg (middle row, fourth from left)
	Ernest O. Lawrence (back row, second from right)
	Lise Meitner (seated, second from right)
	Rudolf Peierls (middle row, second from right)
	Ernest Rutherford (seated, fifth from right)
	E. T. S. Walton (middle row, sixth from left)

The photograph is courtesy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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