The Fifth Solvay Conference - 1927. Letâs get a few people together to see whether we can thrash out quantum mechanics. 17 of the 29 attendees had either already won a Nobel prize or subsequently would, including Marie Curie who had two, in two different subjects.
VB
Yeah, all well and good, but can they make coffee and pizza with maximum faff?
Letâs see:
Pauli wouldnât put enough toppings on
Planck would make tiny ones
Curieâs would glow
Schrödinger might, or he might not
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Marie Curie probably could. She refined more than a tonne of pitchblende ore down to produce just one tenth of a gramme of radium chloride. She was looking after her pre-school daughter at the same time. A few years later, at the age of 39 and now with a second child, she was widowed. It didnât stop her working though and she still found time to start an affair with Langevin (thatâs him, on the other side of Einstein) who was five years younger than her and married at the time.
VB
Heâd have the spin sorted out though.
VB
Heâd exclude them on principle
Until the delivery box is opened, it both has and doesnât have pineapple.
Glasgow
No idea of the when where or why,but I like the photo
my parents used to take me there in 1970s to buy cheap knockoff (fake) outerwear, jeans etcâŠ
Fahrenheit 451
Used to go most weeks in the 70s
Was the closest place to buy cheap doc martens
Brick lane was cheaper,but felt like the other side of the planet as a kid