<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true">The Solvay Conference in 1927 featured 29 scientists, 17 of whom later became Nobel Prize winners, including Marie Curie.The focus of the article is on the probability of capturing a photo where no one is blinking in a large group photo.The mathematics presented in the article illustrates that getting a photo without anyone blinking is more common than one might assume.The article attempts to estimate the number of photos required to ensure that none of the scientists at the Solvay Conference were blinking.