Solvay
Solvay may refer to
- Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist; inventor of the Solvay process
- Solvay process, a major industrial chemical process
- Solvay S.A., an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay
- Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay; deals with open questions in physics and chemistry
- Solvay Business School and 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
Places:
- Solvay, New York, a village
- Solvay Public Library, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica
- Mount Solvay, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
- 7537 Solvay, an asteroid
See also
- Solvay Castle, La Hulpe, Belgium
- Solvay Hut, on the Matterhorn
- Hôtel Solvay, a town house in Brussels, Belgium
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