Hotel Metropole, Brussels
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Seated (L-R): W. Nernst, M. Brillouin, E. Solvay, H. Lorentz, E. Warburg, J. Perrin, W. Wien, M. Curie, and H. Poincaré.
Standing (L-R): R. Goldschmidt, M. Planck, H. Rubens, A. Sommerfeld, F. Lindemann, M. de Broglie, M. Knudsen, F. Hasenöhrl, G. Hostelet, E. Herzen, J.H. Jeans, E. Rutherford, H. Kamerlingh Onnes, A. Einstein, and P. Langevin.
Hotel Metropole, built in 1895, is the only 19th century hotel in Brussels still in operation today.[1] Famous is the photograph of first Solvay conference at the hotel.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.metropolehotel.com/EN/home.cfm?Lang=EN
- ^ http://www.metropolehotel.com/shared/img/pict_metropole_physique.gif
- ^ Annual Report 1999 30. Institute for Theoretical Physics - Faculty of Science - Universiteit van Amsterdam.
