Ernest Solvay

Ernest Solvay

male, deceased (1922)
Belgian Minister of State, Leblanc process, philanthropist, belgian, Industrialist, sodium chloride…Solvay Business School, SolvayConference, Solvay process
Ernest Solvay (April 16, 1838 - May 26, 1922) was an Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born at Rebecq, an illness prevented him...
Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine

male, deceased (2003)
dissipative system, thermodynamicist, complex systems, dissipative structures, scientist, Nobel Prize winner…SolvayConference, International Solvay Institute
Ilya Prigogine was a Belgian physicist and Nobel Laureate chemist noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and...
Marc Henneaux

Marc Henneaux

male
Free University of Brussels alumni, Francqui Prize, Université libre de Bruxelles, belgian, SolvayConference, Service de Physique Théorique et Mathématique
Marc Henneaux is a Belgian physicist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He studied physics at the ULB and obtained his PhD...
Auguste Piccard

Auguste Piccard

male, deceased (1962)
physicist, ULB, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Free University of Brussels, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, Auguste Antoine Piccard…SolvayConference, Solvay Congress
Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. Piccard and his twin brother Jean Felix were born in Basel, Switzerland....

Georges Lemaître

male, deceased (1966)
velocity-distance relation, Father Georges Henri Joseph Éduard Lemaître, Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Leuven alumni before 1968, Relativists, Arthur Eddington…SolvayConference
Father Georges Henri Joseph Éduard Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer. Fr. (l...
Jean Baptiste Perrin

Jean Baptiste Perrin

male, deceased (1942)
sedimentation equilibrium, Ecole Normale Superieure, sorbonne, Nobel Laureate, physical chemistry, French…SolvayConference, Solvay Committee
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in Lille, France where he attended the École Normale Supérieure. He be...