Solvay Explained

Solvay may refer to:

Companies and organizations

• Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Brussels, Belgium
• 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
• Solvay S.A., an international chemicals and plastics company founded by Ernest Solvay

Places

• Solvay, New York, a village in New York, United States
• Mount Solvay, part of Belgica Mountains in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
• Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, off the coast of Antarctica

Buildings

• Solvay Castle, La Hulpe, Belgium
• Hôtel Solvay, a town house in Brussels, Belgium
• Solvay Hut, a mountain hut on the Matterhorn, Switzerland

People

• Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), Belgian chemist, inventor of the Solvay process
• Lucien Solvay (1851–1950), Belgian journalist, art historian, and poet
• Paolo Solvay, pseudonym of Luigi Batzella (1924–2008), Italian film director and actor

Other uses

• Solvay Conference, founded by Ernest Solvay, deals with open questions in physics and chemistry
• Solvay Public Library, a historic Carnegie library in New York, United States; on the National Register of Historic Places
• Solvay process, a major industrial chemical process
• 7537 Solvay, an asteroid

See also

• Solway (disambiguation)