ECS President | 1981-1982 Ralph James Brodd was born in Moline Illinois on September 8, 1928. He obtained a BA in chemistry from Augustana College in 1950 and an MA and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Texas in 1953 and 1955 respectively. He won the Corrosion Division Student Essay Contest in 1954. Dr. Brodd joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1955 and worked in the areas of standard cells, kinetics of battery-related reactions, and internal impedance...
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ECS President | 1987-1988 Fritz G. Will was born in Breslau, Germany on January 12, 1931. He received his B.S. degree in Physics in 1953, his M.S., and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1959 all from the Technical University, Munich, Germany. His thesis, under the direction of Professor C.A. Knorr, was on the “Investigation of Hydrogen and Oxygen Chemisorbed Layers on Noble Metal Electrodes with a New Non-Steady State Method”. Dr. Will joined the research staff of the U.S. Army…
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ECS President | 1989-1990 Elton James Cairns was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 7, 1932. He received B.S. degrees (Summa Cum Lauda) in chemistry and in chemical engineering from the Michigan Technological University in 1955. He earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959. Dr. Cairns joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York in 1959. He conducted research on ion-exchange membrane fuel cells, electrocatalysis, surface chemistry, the anodic oxidation of…
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ECS President | 1995-1996 Kathryn Rice Bullock was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on September 24, 1945. She received a B.A. in English with a chemistry minor from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1967. She became interested in electrochemistry while working as a Research technician on Ni/Zn batteries at Gates Company, Denver. She enrolled in Northwestern University for graduate work. In 1969, she was an Electrochemical Society Summer fellow and earned an M.S. in Chemistry. She became a National Institutes…
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ECS President | 2003-2004 Bruno Scrosati received his degree in chemistry in 1966, and in 1969, his doctoral degree in electrochemistry, both from the University of Rome. From 1964 to 1966, he was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. In 1970 and 1971, he was a Summer Visiting Scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Since 1980 he has been a full professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Rome. In…
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ECS President | 2011-2012 Esther S. Takeuchi is currently a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She previously held the rank of SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY in the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Chemistry. Her interests focus on materials, electrochemical power sources, and medical devices. She joined the University in 2007 after a 22-year career at Greatbatch, Inc., where she was involved in...
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Division awards are dedicated to recognition of work done in the trenches with an emphasis on accomplishments in the particular fields of Divisional interest. Please contact ECS for further information about any of these awards: E-mail: awards@electrochem.org Telephone: 609.737.1902, ext.124 Apply Now Battery Division Early Career Award sponsored by Neware Technology Limited Battery Division M. Stanley Whittingham Mid-Career Award Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award sponsored by MTI Corporation and the Jiang Family Foundation Battery Division Research Award Battery Division...
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ECS provides a number of fellowships and awards to help students become full-fledged professionals. Please contact ECS for further information about any of these awards: E-mail: awards@electrochem.org Telephone: 609.737.1902 Apply Now Battery Division Student Research Award Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Research & Development Canada Section Student Award Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award Energy Technology Division Graduate Student Award sponsored by BioLogic Georgia Section Outstanding Student Achievement Award General Student Poster Session Awards India Section S.K. Rangarajan Graduate Student Award Industrial...
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ECS began recognizing long-term supporters of the Society with the Leadership Circle Awards in the fall of 2002. The award honors and thanks our partners in electrochemistry and solid state science. It is granted in the anniversary year that an institutional partner reaches a milestone level. Recipient qualifications Recipients are institutional partners in good standing. Award The ECS President or appointed ECS representative presents the award—a commemorative plaque—to the distinguished corporation’s institutional representative at an ECS biannual meeting or a...
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The Europe Section Alessandro Volta Medal was established in 1998 to recognize excellence in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology research. Nomination Deadline: February 15, even years Presented: Fall meeting, even years Recipient qualifications The recipient will have made outstanding achievements in either electrochemical science or solid state science and technology based on publications and/or technical contributions to these fields. Nomination Submissions Nominations shall be made by members of ECS. A complete nomination package includes: Completed electronic nomination form...
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