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Opinion of Some Scientists

   
Sir William Pope
President of the International Scientific Committee for Chemistry of the Solvay Institutes (1921-1936)
 
“For a new Foundation, to find such example of prudent and princely endowment based on sympathy and personal Assistance by donors, one has to go back to the 15th Century, at the time where the Medicis family made Florence the most intellectual of cities in the world not only through the power of money but also through the active collaboration of the genius of its members.”
Jean Perrin
Nobel Prize for Physics
 
  “The creation of these Institutes, which will keep alive the great figure of Ernest Solvay in the memory of Researchers, will appear more and more like one of the most important events of the history of the development of Science.”
 

Niels Bohr
at the occasion of the 12th Solvay Conference, October 9-14 1961, "Quantum Theory of Fields"

 
Edoardo Amaldi
"The First 17 Solvay Conferences in Physics (1911-1978)"