The most famous people who participated in the conference were Ervin Schrödinger, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Auguste Piccard, Paul Dirac, Max Born, Wolfgang Pauli, Louis de Broglie, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein and others.
The film opens with quick shots of Erwin Schrödinger and Niels Bohr. Auguste Piccard, from the University of Brussels, follows, then the camera refocuses on Schrödinger and Bohr.
Schrödinger, who developed wave mechanics, never agreed with Bohr on quantum mechanics.
Solvay gave Heisenberg the opportunity to discuss his new theory of the uncertainty principle.
Max Born's statistical interpretation of the wave function put an end to determinism in the atomic world.
These men – Bohr, Heisenberg, Kramers, Dirac and Born – represent with Born the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.
Louis de Broglie wrote his thesis on the wave nature of matter, which Schrödinger used as the basis for wave mechanics.
Albert Einstein, whose famous response to Born's statistical interpretation of the wave function was: "God doesn't play dice."
Twenty-nine physicists, the leading quantum theorists of the time, met to discuss the theme /"Electrons and photons/". Seventeen of the 29 participants were or became Nobel laureates.
Here is a "home movie" shot by Irving Langmuir (winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932). It captures 2 minutes of an intermission in the proceedings. Twenty-one of the 29 participants are present in the film.
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