Sponsored by National Academy of Sciences, located in Long Island.
Some photos at: www.nasonline.org/about-nas/history/archives/milestones-in-NAS-history/shelter-island-conference-photos.html on the website of National Academy of Sciences, therefore canon.
This is where Isidor Rabi exposed experiments carried out on the anomalous magnetic dipole moment and Willis Lamb presented his work on the Lamb shift.
It was a very private and intimate conference, that gathered the best physicists of the area, one is reminded of the style of the Solvay Conference.
QED and the men who made it: Dyson, Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga by Silvan Schweber (1994) chapter 4.1 this conference was soon compared to the First Solvay Conference (1911), which set in motion the development of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.
Investigations on the theory of the Brownian movement by Einstein (1905) by 
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Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16English translation of papers that include the original Quantization as an Eigenvalue Problem by Schrödinger (1926).
Published on Nature at www.nature.com/articles/122990a0 and therefore still paywalled there as of 2023, it's ridiculous.
In 2024 it will fall into the public domain in the US.
Shot by Web of Stories.
The amount of detail in which he remembers all that happened is astounding. Not too different from the Murray Gell-Mann interview in that aspect.
Richard Feynman's mentor at Princeton University, and notable contributor to his development of quantum electrodynamics.
Worked with Niels Bohr at one point.
Web of Stories interview (1996): www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFzVlqiUh95Q881umWUPjQbB. He's a bit slow, you wonder if he's going to continute or not! One wonders if it is because of age, or he's always been like that.
The bald confident chilled out particle physics guy from Stanford University!
Also one can't stop thinking abot Leonard Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory upoen hearing his name.
quoteinvestigator.com/2017/09/25/progress/ on Quote Investigator says it appeared in 1948. Can't easily check, but will believe it for now.
An ELF file contains the following parts:
- ELF header. Points to the position of the section header table and the program header table.
- Section header table (optional on executable). Each has
e_shnumsection headers, each pointing to the position of a section. - N sections, with
N <= e_shnum(optional on executable) - Program header table (only on executable). Each has
e_phnumprogram headers, each pointing to the position of a segment. - N segments, with
N <= e_phnum(only on executable)
The order of those parts is not fixed: the only fixed thing is the ELF header that must be the first thing on the file: Generic docs say:
In pictures: sample object file with three sections:
+-------------------+
| ELF header |---+
+---------> +-------------------+ | e_shoff
| | |<--+
| Section | Section header 0 |
| | |---+ sh_offset
| Header +-------------------+ |
| | Section header 1 |---|--+ sh_offset
| Table +-------------------+ | |
| | Section header 2 |---|--|--+
+---------> +-------------------+ | | |
| Section 0 |<--+ | |
+-------------------+ | | sh_offset
| Section 1 |<-----+ |
+-------------------+ |
| Section 2 |<--------+
+-------------------+But nothing (except sanity) prevents the following topology:
+-------------------+
| ELF header |---+ e_shoff
+-------------------+ |
| Section 1 |<--|--+
+---------> +-------------------+ | |
| | |<--+ | sh_offset
| Section | Section header 0 | |
| | |------|---------+
| Header +-------------------+ | |
| | Section header 1 |------+ |
| Table +-------------------+ |
| | Section header 2 |---+ | sh_offset
+---------> +-------------------+ | sh_offset |
| Section 2 |<--+ |
+-------------------+ |
| Section 0 |<---------------+
+-------------------+But some newbies may prefer PNGs :-)
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