About the Book
As the world's demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize the planet's mineral reserves responsibly.
This biographical dictionary profiles 95 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have researched and developed ever more efficient batteries and energy cells. Each entry traces the subject's origin, education, discoveries and patents, as well as hobbies and family life. The breakthroughs of early innovators are cataloged and the work of living scientists and technicians is brought up to date. An appendix provides a cross-referenced timeline of innovation.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletev
Foreword by Michael Halls
Preface
The Innovators (A–Z)
André, Henri-Georges (1896–1967)
Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904–1992)
Bagotsky, Vladimir Sergeevich (1920–2012)
Bagshaw, Norman Ernest (1933– )
Bain, Alexander (1810–1877)
Barak, Montefiore (1904–1989)
Bode, Hans Heinrich Christian (1905–1989)
Böhnstedt, Werner (1945– )
Brush, Charles Francis (1849–1929)
Bullock, Kathryn R. (1945– )
Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811–1899)
Burbank, Jeanne B. (1915–2002)
Burgess, Charles Frederick (1873–1945)
Cairns, Elton James (1932– )
Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799–1864)
Chapin, Daryl M. (1906–1995), Calvin Souther Fuller (1902–1994) and
Gerald Leondus Pearson (1905–1987)
Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822–1898)
Coetzer, Johan (1941– )
Conway, Brian Evans (1927–2005)
Cooper, John Frederick (1946– )
Daniell, John Frederic (1790–1845)
Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)
Devitt, John Lawrence (1925– )
Dicks, Andrew Leslie (1948– )
Drumm, James J. (1897–1974)
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931)
Faure, Camille Alphonse (1840–1898)
Feder, David O. (1924–2011)
Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
Furukawa, Jun (1957– )
Garche, Jürgen Werner (1944– )
Gassner, Carl (1839–1882)
Goodenough, John Bannister (1922– )
Grätzel, Michael (1944– )
Greatbatch, Wilson (1919–2011)
Green, Martin Andrew (1948– )
Grey, Clare P. (1965– )
Grove, William Robert (1811–1896)
Hare, Robert (1781–1858)
Haring, Howard Egbert (1898–1965)
Hatazawa, Tsuyonobu (1962– )
Hellesen, Frederik Louis Wilhelm (1836–1892)
Jache, Otto (1915–1993)
Jacques, William W. (1855–1932)
Jedlik, Ányos (1800–1895)
Jungner, Ernst Waldemar (1869–1924)
Kabanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904–1988)
Kelley, Kurtis C. (1952– )
Kirchhof, Charles F. (1811–1882)
König, Wilhelm (fl. 1930s)
Kordesch, Karl V. (1922–2011)
Lam, Lan Trieu (1953– )
Leclanché, Georges (1839–1882)
Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946) and Frederick George Keyes (1885–1976)
Monahov, Boris Ivanov (1954– )
Moseley, Patrick Timothy (1943– )
Musschenbroek, Pieter (Petrus) van (1692–1761)
Nora, Vittorio de (1912–2008)
Ogumi, Zempachi (1945– )
Ohl, Russell Shoemaker (1898–1987)
Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert (1922–2012)
Pavlov, Detchko (1930– )
Peters, Kenneth (1928– )
Pierson, John Ronald (1936– )
Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston (1834–1889)
Prengaman, R. David (1943– )
Rand, David Anthony James (1942‒)
Renard, Charles (1847–1905)
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776–1810)
Ruben, Samuel (1900–1988)
Ruetschi, Paul (1925– )
Sadoway, Donald Robert (1950– )
Salkind, Alvin J. (1927–2015)
Sampson, Henry Thomas (1934– )
Sastry, Ann Marie (1967– )
Scrosati, Bruno (1937– )
Sinsteden, Wilhelm Josef (1803–1891)
Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria (1951– )
Smee, Alfred (1818–1877)
Sudworth, James (1939–2013)
Takeuchi, Esther Sans (1953– )
Thackeray, Michael Makepeace (1949– )
Tobias, Charles W. (1920–1996)
Trouvé, Gustave Pierre (1939–1902)
Urry, Lewis F. (1927–2004)
Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745–1827)
Voss, Ernst Christian Hinrich (1923–2004)
Whittingham, M. Stanley (1941– )
Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828)
Yai, Sakizou (1863–1927)
Yeager, Ernest B. (1924–2002)
Zamboni, Giuseppe (1776–1846)
Appendix: Timeline
Bibliography
Index
