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Ernest Solvay
* 1838 in Rebecq-Rognon, Belgium
+ 1922 in Ixelles, Brussels
Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay was a Belgian chemist, industrialist
and philanthropist.
In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the
manufacturing of soda ash (anhydrous sodium carbonate).
In 1911, he began a series of important conferences in physics,
known as the Solvay Conferences.
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