The preeminent series of annual alternating conferences organised by philanthropist and industrialist Ernest Solvay hosted in Brussels started in 1911 to address unsolved problems in physics, biology and chemistry, concluded its fifth and most notable session on this day in 1927, captured with this class photo (see also, referred to as the most intelligent picture ever taken) of attendees. 
With some tension over the participation of German scientists lifting, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg and Max Plank were able to join colloquia and workshops with Niels Bohr, Auguste Piccard, Paul Dirac, Marie-Skłodowska-Curie and others to explore the topics of electrons and protons, hammering out the finer details of the newly formulated discipline of quantum mechanics. The congresses continue to this day with latest iteration on biology in scheduled for next month with talks on the subject epigenesis.
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