[EINSTEIN & CURIE]

[EINSTEIN & CURIE]
[EINSTEIN & CURIE]: [EINSTEIN ALBERT] (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921 & [CURIE MARIE] (1867-1934) French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics 1903, and for Chemistry 1911. A good vintage unsigned sepia 7 x 5 photograph showing the members of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation (attached to the League of Nations) gathered together standing and seated in several rows outside the Hotel Leger in Thoiry on 25th July 1930, the delegates including Albert Einstein (seated third from left in the front row) and Marie Curie (seated far left in the front row) as well as Nicolae Titulescu (1882-1941) Romanian politician and diplomat, President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations 1930-32, George Oprescu (1881-1969) Romanian historian, art critic and collector, Secretary of the ICIC, Alfredo Rocco (1875-1935) Italian politician and jurist, Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, Paul Painleve (1863-1933) French mathematician and statesman, Prime Minister of France 1917 & 1925, Paul Valery (1871-1945) French poet, essayist and philosopher, and other intellectuals. Photograph by Robert Ehrer of Bellegarde and bearing his white facsimile signature (within the negative) to the lower right corner and credit stamp to the verso. With a series of pencil annotations to the verso, most relating to the publication of the photograph. A few surface and corner creases, otherwise about VG