Édouard heart

Édouard Herzen (* 1877 in Florence ; † 1936 ) was a Belgian chemist.

Herzen received his doctorate in surface tension from the University of Lausanne in 1902 . He was a professor at the École des Hautes Études in Brussels.

He attended many of the Solvay conferences , for example the first in 1911 and the fifth in 1927, and was closely associated with the industrialist Ernest Solvay .

Hearts, standing, 6th from right, Solvay Conference 1911

In 1924 he published a short popular science introduction to Einstein's theory of relativity (La relativité d'Einstein: exposée simplement, Libraire Nouvelle de Lausanne).

Web links

Website on the history of the Solvay conferences

personal data
SURNAME	Hearts, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence
DATE OF DEATH	1936