From: dfreemans@live.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 1:34:57 AM UTC-4, dav...@agent.com wrote:   
   > Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (1838–1922) was a Belgian chemist,    
   > industrialist and philanthropist.   
   >    
   > Born at Rebecq, he was prevented by acute pleurisy from going to   
   > university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factory from the age of   
   > 21.   
   >    
   > In 1861, he developed the ammonia-soda process for the manufacturing   
   > 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.   
   >    
   > He founded the company Solvay & Cie and established his first factory   
   > at 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.   
   >    
   > The exploitation of his patents 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 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 Conferences, whose   
   > participants included luminaries such as Max Planck, Ernest   
   > Rutherford, Maria Sklodowska-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.   
   >    
   > He was twice elected to the Belgian Senate for the Liberal Party and   
   > granted honorary title of Minister of State at the end of his life.   
   > Solvay, New York and Rosignano Solvay, the locations of the first   
   > Solvay process plants in the United States and in Italy, are also   
   > named after him.   
   >    
   > Solvay died at Ixelles at the age of 84 and is interred there in the   
   > Ixelles Cemetery.   
      
      
   Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay =   
      
   Joy re gent's soap ash solvent.   
      
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