We used to dress up for conferences

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1. Tony Mach says:

   August 30, 2012 at 2:20 am

   Amazing photographs, but the first photograph is just wow. Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schroedinger, Broglie, Dirac, the whole lot (and a few more probably better known people trained in physics). Lorentz is the white-bearded grand old man, together with Einstein’ eminence they dominate the center, Pauli and Heisenberg are slick and sly in the back row, while Schroedinger’s mind seems to wander off somewhere else.

   The second looks to my (non-American) eye like a convention of wild-west bank-robbers. Googling the PMID reveals: “G. Stanley Hall, the great psychologist and President of Clark University, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, and four other European scientists of significant note, invited to participate in the Decennial Celebration of Clark [at Clark University, 1899].” Mistaking psychologists for bank-robbers, an honest mistake Mr. Freud.

   Of the third, I only know Claude Shannon, from my contacts with sampling theory.

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2. Tony Mach says:

   August 30, 2012 at 2:21 am

   should read:
   … better known *to* people trained in physics …

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3. L. says:

   September 5, 2012 at 12:39 pm

   Colorized:
   http://imgur.com/gallery/Hzmax

   Hat tip to Portia.

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