a party of famous physicists

not mine; taken from the sps national website

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One day, all of the world's famous physicists decided to get together for a tea luncheon. Fortunately, the doorman was a grad student, and able to observe some of the guests...

• Everyone gravitated toward Newton, but he just kept moving around at a constant velocity and showed no reaction.

• Einstein thought it was a relatively good time.

• Coulomb got a real charge out of the whole thing.

• Cavendish wasn't invited, but he had the balls to show up anyway.

• Cauchy, being the only mathematician there, still managed to integrate well with everyone.

• Thompson enjoyed the plum pudding.

• Pauli came late, but was mostly excluded from things, so he split.

• Pascal was under too much pressure to enjoy himself.

• Ohm spent most of the time resisting Ampere's opinions on current events.

• Hamilton went to the buffet tables exactly once.

• Volt thought the social had a lot of potential.

• Hilbert was pretty spaced out for most of it.

• Heisenberg may or may not have been there.

• The Curies were there and just glowed the whole time.

• van der Waals forced himeself to mingle.

• Wien radiated a colourful personality.

• Millikan dropped his Italian oil dressing.

• de Broglie mostly just stood in the corner and waved.

• Hollerith liked the hole idea.

• Stefan and Boltzman got into some hot debates.

• Everyone was attracted to Tesla's magnetic personality.

• Compton was a little scatter-brained at times.

• Bohr ate too much and got atomic ache.

• Watt turned out to be a powerful speaker.

• Hertz went back to the buffet table several times a minute.

• Faraday had quite a capacity for food.

• Oppenheimer got bombed.