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On the shoulders of giants

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In the early 1900s, the Solvay conferences famously brought together the early protagonists of quantum theory. At the latest meeting in the series, the issue was now the quantum structure of space–time itself.

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Figure 1: The Solvay conference, 1911.

PHOTO COUPRIE, BRUXELLES/SOLVAY INSTITUTE

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Green, M. On the shoulders of giants. Nature Phys 2, 73–74 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys220

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