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The Fifth Solvey Conference

On November 3rd, 1927, the Fifth Solvay International Conference concluded and gave way to what is known today as the Copenhagen interpretation of the atomic model. This understanding of the atom was something Einstein and other conservative Physicists rejected, but Bohr and other more radical minds won the debate.

Source: "The Clash of the Titans," Atom, directed by Tim M.J. Taylor (BBC, 2007)

Fifth Solvay Conference
1927 Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics. Photograph by Benjamin Couprie, Institut International de Physique Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
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