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Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics
2025
Vyacheslav Rychkov
IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
2024
Samaya Nissanke
UvA & Nikhef, The Netherlands
2023
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University, USA
2022
Juna Kollmeier
Canadian Institute for Theoratical Astrophysics, Toronto, Canada
2021
Jean Dalibard
ENS & Collège de France
2020
Roger Blandford
Stanford University, USA
2019
Gary Gibbons
DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK
2018
Bernard Derrida
Collège de France, Paris, France
2017
Uri Alon
Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
2016
Dam Thanh Son
University of Chicago, USA
2015
Peter Zoller
University of Innsbruck, Austria
2014
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
LMU, Munich, Germany
2013
Gian Giudice
CERN, Switzerland
2012
Jan Zaanen
Leiden, The Netherlands
2006
Ludwig Faddeev
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2011
Nathan Seiberg
University of Princeton, USA
2010
Serge Haroche
2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Paris, France
2009
Valery Rubakov
Poscow, Russia
2008
David Gross
2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Santa Barbara, USA
2007
Michael Berry
Bristol, UK
International Solvay Chair in Chemistry
In 2024 and 2025, thanks to the contribution of Syensqo, the Chemistry Chair was renamed “The Syensqo Chair in Chemistry by the International Solvay Institutes”.
2025
Laura Gagliardi
University of Chicago, United States of America
2024
Markus Antonietti
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
2023
Ehud Gazit
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
2022
Daniel Jacob
Harvard University, USA
2021
Omar Yaghi
Berkeley University of California, USA
2020
Joanna Aizenberg
Harvard University, USA
2019
Gernot Frenking
Philipps-University. Marburg, Germany
2018
Ben Feringa
2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
2017
Richard Henderson
2017 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Cambridge, UK
2016
Raymond Kapral
University of Toronto, Canada
2015
Andreas Manz
KIST Europe, Saarbrücken, Germany
2014
Richard Royce Schrock
MIT, USA
2013
Egbert W. Meijer
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
2012
Viola Vogel
Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Jean-Luc Brédas
Atlanta, USA
2010
Weitao Yang
Durham, USA
2009
Alexander Mikhailov
Berlin, Germany
2008
Richard Saykally
Berkeley, USA
International Solvay Chair in Biology
2025
Benjamin Simons
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
2011 Solvay Centenary Chair
2008
David Gross
2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Santa Barbara, USA