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The Fifth International on Quantum Mechanics
This was a major, major conference in 1927 in Belgium and all of the key players in the formulation of quantum mechanics are almost all of them were there. And this was sort of a great coming out party for the version of quantum mechanics that Heisenberg and Born and Boor and Paulie had cobbled together. It's still what we teach our students today. One of the rules is this thing called the Schrodinger equation, which is exactly the kind of thing that we love to have as a law of nature.