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Between 22 and 29 October 1933 the Institut International Solvay organised in Brussels the “Septième Conseil de Physique” or, as it would later be remembered, the “Septième Solvay Conference”. In the tradition of these Conferences the theme under discussion, on which the greatest experts in the field were summoned to report, had to be a topical subject, of great scientific interest and with big problems still open. The first Conference dated back to 1911 and significantly it was dedicated to the “Theory of radiation and quanta”, a field in which the first developments were beginning to be seen in those very years.
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Guerra, F., Robotti, N. (2018). The Solvay Conference and Fermi’s theory of beta decay: October-December 1933. In: The Lost Notebook of ENRICO FERMI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69254-8_6
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