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|caption = Ernest Solvay (c1900) |
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|birth_date = [[16 April]] [[1838]] |
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|birth_place = [[Rebecq]] |
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|death_date = [[26 May]] [[1922]] |
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|death_place = [[Ixelles]] |
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|known_for = [[Ammonia-Soda Process|ammonia-soda process]] |
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'''Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay''' ([[16 April]] [[1838]] - [[26 May]] [[1922]]) was a [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[chemist]], [[industrialist]] and [[philanthropist]]. |
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== October 2008 == |
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Born at [[Rebecq]], an illness prevented him from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of 21. |
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In 1861, he developed the [[Ammonia-Soda Process|ammonia-soda process]] for the manufacture of [[soda ash]] (anhydrous [[sodium carbonate]]) from brine (as a source of [[sodium chloride]]) and [[limestone]] (as a source of [[calcium carbonate]]). The process was an improvement over the earlier [[Leblanc process]]. |
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He established his first factory at [[Charleroi|Couillet]] (now merged into [[Charleroi]], [[Belgium]]) in 1863 and further perfected the process until 1872, when he patented it. Soon, [[Solvay process]] plants were established in the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and Austria. Today, about 70 Solvay process plants are still operational worldwide. |
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The exploitation of his [[patent]]s brought Solvay considerable wealth, which he used for [[philanthropic]] purposes, including the establishment in 1894 of the "Institut des Sciences Sociales" (ISS) or Institute for Sociology at the [[Free University of Brussels]] (now split into the [[Université Libre de Bruxelles]] and the [[Vrije Universiteit Brussel]]), as well as [[Solvay Conference|International Institutes for Physics and Chemistry]]. In 1903, he founded the [[Solvay Business School]] which is also part of the [[Free University of Brussels]]. In 1911, he began a series of important conferences in physics, known as the [[Solvay Conference]]s, whose participants included luminaries such as [[Max Planck]], [[Ernest Rutherford]], [[Marie Curie]], [[Henri Poincaré]], and (then only 32 years old) [[Albert Einstein]]. A later conference would include [[Niels Bohr]], [[Werner Heisenberg]], [[Max Born]], and [[Erwin Schrödinger]]. |
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He was two times elected to the [[Belgian Senate]] for the [[Liberal Party (Belgium)|Liberal Party]] and appointed [[Minister of State]] at the end of his life. [[Solvay, New York]], the location of the first Solvay process plant in the United States, is named after him. |
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Solvay died at [[Ixelles]] and is interred there in the [[Ixelles Cemetery]]. |
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[[Image:1911 Solvay conference.jpg|300px|thumb|The portrait of participants to the first [[Solvay Conference]] in 1911. Ernest Solvay is the third seated from the left. |
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N.B. It is funny to note that, for some reasons, Solvay wasn't present at the time the photo was taken, so his photo was cut from an other one and pasted onto this one for the official release. In a time when no digital imaging editing tool existed, hence, the larger head ...]] |
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==References== |
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* Bertrand, Louis, ''Ernest Solvay. Een hervormer op maatschappelijk gebied'', Brussels, Agence Dechenne, 1918, 113 p. |
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* Boianovsky, Mauro, Erreygers, Guido, ''Social comptabilism and pure credit systems. Solvay and [[Knut Wicksell|Wicksell]] on monetary reform'', in : Fontaine, Philippe, Leonard, Robert, (ed.), The experiment in the history of economics, London, Routledge, 2005, p. 98-134. |
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* Despy-Meyer, Andrée, Devriese Didier (ed.), ''Ernest Solvay et son temps'', Brussels, Archives de l'ULB, 1997, 349 p. |
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* Erreygers, Guido, ''The economic theories and social reform proposals of Ernest Solvay (1838-1922)'', in : Samuels, Warren J. (red.), European economists of the early 20th century, volume 1. Studies of neglected thinkers of Belgium, France, The Netherlands and Scandinavia, Cheltenham-Northampton, Edward Elgar, 1998, p. 221-262. |
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* Rapaille, Maxime, Solvay, un géant. ''Des rives de la Sambre aux confins de la terre'', Bruxelles, Didier Hatier, 1989, 187 p. |
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==See also== |
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*[[Solvay Institute of Sociology]] |
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*[[Emile Waxweiler]] |
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