Can you name the Nobel prize-winning participants of the 1927 Solvay Conference?

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  • Seventeen of the 29 participants of the 5th Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, in October 1927, were or became Nobel Prize winners, one of them even winning it twice.
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Nobel CitationPersonYear
'[for his] researches into the influence of magnetism upon radiation'1902
'[for her] researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel'1903
'[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element'1911
'[for his] services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays'1915
'[for] the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta'1918
'for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect'1921
'for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them'1922
'for his discovery of the effect named after him'1927
'for his method of making the paths of electrically charged particles visible by condensation of vapour'1927
Nobel CitationPersonYear
'for his work on the thermionic phenomenon and especially for the discovery of the law named after him'1928
'for his discovery of the wave nature of electrons'1929
'for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen'1932
'for his discoveries and investigations in surface chemistry'1932
'for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory'1933
'for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory'1933
'[for his work on] molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases'1936
'for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the [name deleted] principle'1945
'for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction'1954
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