Frederik Naessens

This photograph was captured during the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. Among the 29 attendees, 17 were either Nobel Prize laureates or would go on to become one in the future. Notably, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, positioned two seats to the left of Albert Einstein, who is seated in the middle of the front row, was the sole woman in attendance. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win it twice, and the only individual to secure Nobel Prizes in two distinct fields: physics and chemistry. Here are the names of the other attendees. Some of these names may sound familiar, especially if you've studied physics, as many fundamental physical constants bear their names: Front row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, C.T.R Wilson, Owen Richardson. Middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr. Back row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, JE Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin.

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards. Most of them were comatose & dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Others were being placed on extremely strict diets, which inevitably led to starvation.