Members of the 1927 Solvay Conference

Name the scientists that were invited to the famous Solvay Conference in 1927

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Nationality	Scientific Contribution	Nobel Prize?	Answer
Dutch-American	Application of Dipole moments to charges	1936 - Chemistry	Peter Debye
American	Inventor of the high-vacuum tube	1932 - Chemistry	Irving Langmuir
Danish	Studied molecular gas flow		Martin Knudsen
German	A very small constant in quantum mechanics is named after him	1918 - Physics	Max Planck
Austrian-British	X-Ray Diffraction	1915 - Physics	Lawrence Bragg
Polish-French	Pioneering research on Radioactivity, discovering 2 new elements	1903 - Physics 1911 - Chemistry	Marie Curie
Dutch	Introduced the concept of renormalisation into quantum field theory		Hendrik Anthony Kramers
Dutch	Derived the transformation equations underpinning the theory of relativity	1902 - Physics	Hendrik Lorentz
English	Discovered the relativistic eqaution for the electron	1933 - Physics	Paul Dirac
German	Special & General Relativity	1921 - Physics	Albert Einstein
American	Named after an effect, which demonstrates the particle nature of electromagentic radiation	1927 - Physics	Arthur Compton
French	Came up with the Twin paradox (a thought expermient in special relativity)		Paul Langevin
French	Hypothesised the wave nature of particles	1929 - Physics	Louis De Broglie
Swiss	Studiesd Optical Rotatory Dispersion		Charles Eugene Guye
German	Alongside another physicist formulated matrix mechanics into quantum mechanics	1954 - Physics	Max Born
Scottish	The Invention of the cloud chamber	1927 - Physics	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Danish	Developed the model of the atom with discrete electron energy levels	1922 - Physics	Niels Bohr
British	Thermionic Emission	1928 - Physics	Owen Willans Richardson
Swiss	Inventor of the first bathyscraphe		Auguste Piccard
French	Showed Potassium and Rubidium are naturally radioactive		Emile Henriot
Belgian	Published 'The Reports of Energy and Mass After Ernest Solvay' in 1924		Edouard Herzen
Dutch	Contributions to statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics		Paul Ehrenfest
Belgian	The Father of Irreversible Thermodynamics		Theophile de Donder
Austrian	Formulised an equation to calculation the wave function and created a thought experiment with a cat	1933 - Physics	Erwin Schrodinger
Belgian	Worked at Kamerlingh Onne's laboratory in Leiden from 1894-1906		Jules-Emile Verschaffelt
Austrian	Came up with the exclusion principle	1945 - Physics	Wolfgang Pauli
German	Came up with the uncertainty principle	1932 - Physics	Werner Heisenberg
English	Worked on statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars in 1926		Ralph H. Fowler
French	Studies the scattering of light with a frequency change		Leon Brillouin

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