Summer 1910

The founder of several institutes in Brussels (the Institutes for Physiology and for Sociology, the Business School), Ernest Solvay is a passionate supporter of physics. Walther Nernst and Ernest Solvay established contact in June 1910, at the home of Robert Goldschmidt, Walther Nernst’s Belgian assistant and a friend of Ernest Solvay.

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Lettre de Walther Nernst à Ernest Solvay, 26 juillet 1910 + en annexe :
« Invitation à un Concile scientifique international pour élucider quelques questions d'actualité de la théorie cinétique » (traduction)

First proposal drafted by Walther Nernst and amended by Ernest Solvay.

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Robert Goldschmidt (1877-1935)

Robert Goldschmidt was a Belgian physicist, a collaborator of Ernest Solvay’s, and Walther Nernst’s assistant.