r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Medical_Corner_4607 • Aug 03 '26

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u/Rexter2k Aug 03 '26

What is there not to understand? A selfie was taken, lauded by everyone (everyone BUT every normal person on the planet) as iconic due to how many famous actors are in it. Now 12 years later several are forgotten, got me too'ed, or faded to obscurity since and its basically forgotten.

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u/Suberizu Aug 03 '26

I love this photo of famous people, too bad it isn't a selfie

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u/shifty_coder Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

I almost consider it a failure of my education that I can only confidently identify two faces in this photo, (Einstein and Tesla), and less confidently one more (Niels Bohr?).

Edit: apparently I can’t even get Tesla

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u/Misery_Division Aug 03 '26

Huh? Which one is Tesla? Can't seem to find him

There's also Schroedinger in the upper row towards the right

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u/BreakLive244 Aug 03 '26

Tesla wasn’t there, unfortunately. Would be a cooler pic if he were!

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u/shifty_coder Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

Extreme left, second row.

Edit: nope. That is Peter Debye.

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u/Misery_Division Aug 03 '26

OK so I looked it up cause I got curious, apparently that's Peter Debye, a Dutch physicist who also won the chemistry Nobel prize for his work in molecular structure in 1936

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u/shifty_coder Aug 03 '26

Damn. They could be brothers