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The Seventh Solvay Conference: Nuclear Physics, Intellectual Migration, and Institutional Influence (2016)

Stuewer, Roger H. (Author)

Pages: 89-116

URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-59420-4_4

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I discuss the founding of the Solvay Conferences in Physics by Ernest Solvay in Brussels in 1911 and then turn to the seventh Solvay Conference in October 1933. I show how it lay at the crossroads in the history of experimental and theoretical nuclear physics when new experimental techniques and instruments were being developed and new theoretical ideas and concepts were being generated, all of which were diffused to physicists in many countries of the world, some of whom were part of the greatest intellectual migration in the twentieth century, if not in history. I conclude by indicating the great influence that the Solvay Conferences exerted as a model for other conferences in physics and in the history and philosophy of physics.

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