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QUESTION 1
Which brilliant chemist received the life-changing phone call announcing he had won the Nobel Prize while he was actively attending the 182nd ECS Meeting in Toronto, Canada in October 1992?
ANSWER: Rudolph A. Marcus
QUESTION 2
Where was the first ECS meeting held?
ANSWER: Philaldelphia, Pennyslvania
QUESTION 3
ECS wasn’t always called The Electrochemical Society. Under what name was the organization founded in Philadelphia in 1902?
ANSWER: The American Electrochemical Society
QUESTION 4
Which city has hosted the highest number of official biannual meetings in the history of ECS?
ANSWER: New York
QUESTION 5
Which ECS Meeting featured a visit to Thomas Edison’s laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey?
ANSWER: 10th ECS Meeting
QUESTION 6
One of the most famous predictions in technology history was first publicly articulated at an ECS event in 1964. What was it?
ANSWER: Moore’s Law
QUESTION 7
Which Nobel laureate has given more than 50 ECS biannual meeting presentations?
ANSWER: M. Stanley Whittingham
QUESTION 8
At which ECS Meeting was Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons’ theory of cold fusion discredited?
ANSWER: 175th ECS Meeting
QUESTION 9
Which famous inventor and ECS member served as President of The Electrochemical Society from 1909–1910?
ANSWER: Edward Goodrich Acheson