如果要找出人类历史上最珍贵的一张合影，你会选哪一张？在我看来，毫无疑问应该是下面这张：

第五届索尔维会议

这张照片被称为“史上最强朋友圈”，你能一眼认出几位大牛？

我们来聊聊空前绝后的“索尔维会议”

1911年，第一届索尔维会议在比利时的布鲁塞尔召开，参会者是当时世界上最负盛名的物理学家们。这届会议留下了第一张“最强大脑”合影，从位置的排列上可以看出他们当时的地位——在桌前就座的重量级人物中，居里夫人显然是众星捧月的女神，而爱因斯坦、普朗克和朗之万等都还只能在后排站着。

第一届索尔维会议

下面是关于这次历史性聚会的一段英文简述：

Late in October 1911, eighteen leading scientists from all over Europe met to the first of a famous sequence of Solvay conferences in Brussels. This historical meeting was mainly devoted to “The Theory of Radiation and the Quanta”, at a time when the foundations of physics were totally shaken. Although “nothing positive came out” (Einstein), it is interesting to see the diverging attitudes of Europe’s most famous scientists in the middle of the quantum revolution. After a few general remarks about the conference, I shall focus on some of the most interesting contributions and discussions. Einstein, at 32 the youngest, was clearly most aware of the profound nature of the crises. He gave the final talk entitled “The Present State of the Problem of Specific Heats”, but he put his theme into the larger context of the quantum problem, and caused a barrage of challenges, in particular from Lorentz, Planck, Poincaré, and others.

下面我们就要来说说最重要的1927年第五届索尔维会议了

这届会议被公认为人类历史上阵容最强大的天才头脑聚会，很多我们只在教科书上见过的名字，还有折磨过亿万学生的公式定理的“始作俑者”，都在这届会议上现出了“真身”。可以说，除了牛顿这样不属于同一个时代的大咖，凡是在世的重量级物理学家全都参加了第五届索尔维会议，如果某位大咖没有参加，只能说明他咖位不够。