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The Solvay Conferences have been promoting the development of physics and chemistry of this century, especially the first meeting held in Brussels in 1911 which was devoted to "the theory of radiation and quanta" and played a very important role in the establishment of quantum mechanics.
Ernest Solvay was to organize a new type of scientific meeting; namely the participants of the meeting form a selected group of the most informed experts in a given field and meet to discuss one or a few related problems of fundamental importance and seek to define the steps for their solution.
The 1927 Solvay Conference, held in Belgium, was attended by the world's most notable physicists, like Einstein, Schrodinger, Born, Bohr, Mme Curie and Heiseberg, to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory.
The exploitation of his patents brought Solvay considerable wealth, which he used for philanthropic purposes, including the establishment of the Institute for Sociology at the University of Brussels, as well as International Institutes for Physics and Chemistry.
Solvay, New York, the location of the first Solvay process plant in the United States, is named after him.
Solvay died at Ixelles and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery.
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