Tue, Jul 09, 2019
In 1927 Walther Nernst convinced respected physics enthusiast Ernest Solvay to convene the world's first international physics conference. Solvey invited the nineteen most brilliant physicists of the day and, at Nerst's urging, one upstart no one took seriously; Albert Einstein. Why? Because Einstein's outrageous ideas about wave particle duality were a perfect fit for Nernst's work in thermodynamics.