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Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management The Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (abbreviated as SBS-EM and also known as simply Solvay) is a school of economics and management, and a Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a French-speaking private rese ...

, Brussels, Belgium *

Solvay Institute of Sociology The Solvay Institute of Sociology ''SIS; ''Institut de Sociologie Solvay''assumed its first "definitive form" on November 16, 1902, when its founder Ernest Solvay, a wealthy Belgian chemist, industrialist, and philanthropist, inaugurated the or ...

, Brussels, Belgium, part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles *

Solvay Process Company The Solvay Process Company was an American chemical manufacturer that specialized in the manufacture of soda ash. A major employer in Central New York, the company was key in the origin of the village of Solvay, New York, where it was headquarter ...

(1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process *

Solvay S.A. Solvay is a Belgian-French multinational chemical company established in 1863, with its headquarters located in Neder-Over-Heembeek, Brussels, Belgium. Since the end of 2023, following its demerger with the creation of the new Syensqo entity, ...

, an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay

Places

Solvay, New York Solvay is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village located in the town of Geddes, New York, Geddes, Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York (state), New York, United States, and a suburb of the city of Syracuse, New Yor ...

, a village in New York, United States *

Mount Solvay Mount Solvay () is a mountain, 2,560 m, close north of Mount Gillet in the Belgica Mountains. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Program#History, Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, under Gaston de Gerlache, who named it for Ernest John Solva ...

, part of Belgica Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica *

Solvay Mountains The Solvay Mountains are a mountain range that rises to 1590 m ( Cook Summit) and extends in an ENE–WSW direction in the south part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedi ...

, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica

Buildings

Solvay Castle Solvay Castle (, also called ''Château de La Hulpe'') is a château located in Wallonia in the municipality of La Hulpe, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Completed for the Marquis Maximilien de Béthune as an imposing manor house on the outskirts of B ...

, La Hulpe, Belgium *

Hôtel Solvay The Hôtel Solvay (; ) is a large historic town house in Brussels, Belgium. It was designed by Victor Horta for Armand Solvay, the son of the chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay, and built between 1895 and 1900, in Art Nouveau style. It ...

, a town house in Brussels, Belgium *

Solvay Hut The Solvay Hut or Solvay Bivouac (German: ''Solvayhütte'') is a mountain hut located on the north-eastern ridge (Hörnli Ridge) of the Matterhorn, near Zermatt in the canton of Valais. At it is the highest mountain hut owned by the Swiss Alpine ...

, a mountain hut on the Matterhorn, Switzerland

People

Ernest Solvay Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Biography Born in Rebecq, he was prevented by his acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's c ...

(1838–1922), Belgian chemist, inventor of the Solvay process *

Lucien Solvay Lucien Pierre Auguste Constant Solvay (7 October 1851 - 15 August 1950) was a Belgian journalist, art historian and poet. He was the first editor-in-chief of ''Le Soir''. Life Solvay was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, on 7 October 1851 t ...

(1851–1950), Belgian journalist, art historian, and poet * Paolo Solvay, pseudonym of

Luigi Batzella Luigi Batzella (San Sperate, 1924 – San Sperate, 2008) also known as Paolo Solvay was an Italian film director, editor, screenwriter and actor. He made numerous low-budget genre films. Life and career Luigi Batzella was born in San Sperate, ...

(1924–2008), Italian film director and actor

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Solvay Conference The Solvay Conferences () have been devoted to preeminent unsolved problems in both physics and chemistry. They began with the historic invitation-only 1911 Solvay Conference on Physics, considered a turning point in the world of physics, and ar ...

, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open questions in physics and chemistry *

Solvay Public Library The Solvay Public Library is a historic Carnegie library building located at Solvay in Onondaga County, New York. It was built between 1903 and 1905, and is a one-story, buff-colored brick building on a high basement. It has a hipped roof and ...

, a historic Carnegie library in New York, United States; on the National Register of Historic Places *

Solvay process The Solvay process or ammonia–soda process is the major industrial process for the production of sodium carbonate (soda ash, Na2CO3). The ammonia–soda process was developed into its modern form by the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay during the ...

, a major industrial chemical process * 7537 Solvay, an asteroid

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