Another wonderful display is being showcased this month at the Science Library. The theme is the Solvay Conference of 1927, the fifth in a series of conferences still held to this day.  Sponsored by Ernest Solvay, the conference brought together the greatest scientific minds of the time to discuss scientific theories; in 1927, the list of attendees included familiar names such as Marie Curie, Einstein and Schrödinger. The theme that year was Protons and Electrons, and the main discussion was centred on the newly formulated quantum theory. Over a dozen Nobel Prize winners are highlighted in the new display.

Along with the new display is the new grass that is just peeking out around the building.  The staff have all spent a minute or two laughing at the ground squirrels and birds running, jumping and fighting each other on the grounds.  We are all eagerly awaiting the budding of the trees and the blooming of the flowers, if for no other reason than to shade us from the noon sun that streams almost blindingly into our office.  Poor us.