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Solvay may refer to:


Companies and organizations

* Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium * Solvay Institute of Sociology, Brussels, Belgium, part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles * Solvay Process Company (1880–1985), a former U.S. company that employed the Solvay process * Solvay S.A., an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay


Places

* Solvay, New York, 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, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica


Buildings

* Solvay Castle, La Hulpe, Belgium * Hôtel Solvay, a town house in Brussels, Belgium * Solvay Hut, a mountain hut on the Matterhorn, Switzerland


People

* Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist, inventor of the Solvay process * Lucien Solvay (1851–1950), Belgian journalist, art historian, and poet * Paolo Solvay, pseudonym of Luigi Batzella (1924–2008), Italian film director and actor


Other uses

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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, 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


See also

* Solway (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation, geo, surname