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Ernest Solvay

* 1838 in Rebecq-Rognon, Belgium
+ 1922 in Ixelles, Brussels

   

   
Ernest Solvay

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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