Don’t miss your chance to participate in IMLB 2016! This international meeting will provide an exciting forum to discuss recent progress in advanced lithium batteries for energy storage and conversion. IMLB focuses on both basic and applied research findings that have led to improved Li battery materials, and to the understanding of the fundamental processes that determine and control electrochemical performance. A major (but not exclusive) theme of the meeting will address recent advances in beyond lithium-ion technologies. The meeting…
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ECS President | 1907-1908 Charles Frederick Burgess was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on January 5, 1873. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an electrical engineering degree in 1895. He then took up a study of physical chemistry and electrochemistry while teaching. He became well known for his research on electrolytic iron and dry cells. He founded the Burgess battery Company and published many of his research and developments in the transactions of the Society. He and his organization…
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ECS President | 1943-1944 ECS Secretary | 1947-1949 ECS Treasurer | 1931-1943 Robert Martin Burns was born in Longmont, Colorado on January 9, 1890. He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1915 and remained for the M.A. degree which he received in 1916. During this period. he was an instructor in chemistry. His studies were interrupted by the first World War in which he served as a Second lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service. After his discharge in 1919,…
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ECS President | 1947-1948 George William Heise was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 27, 1888. He received his B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin. For the next two years, he taught at Grinnell College in Iowa and at DePaul University in Chicago where he was head of the Department of Physics. In 1911, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to work with Dr. Louis J. Kahlenberg (Society President 1930-1931). He received the M.S. degree in 1912. He…
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ECS President | 1963-1964 Walter J. Hamer was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1907. After receiving his undergraduate training at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., he attended Yale University graduate school and obtained his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1932. In 1966 he was awarded an honorary D.S. from Juniata College at the dedication of its new Science Center. He returned to Yale for two years as a U.S. Navy post doctorate Research Fellow. In July 1934,…
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At every ECS meeting, there is generally one technical session that everyone can attend, and that is the ECS Lecture. The Society has benefited over the years from invited lectures delivered by a series of notable speakers. In earlier days, there were the Joseph W. Richards Memorial Lectures in honor of the Society's first president. These lectures were presented annually and the texts were published in ECS Transactions. The Richards Lectures were discontinued after 1958. In 1970, the policy of...
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ECS President | 1969-1970 Nelson Cory Cahoon was born in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada on October 12, 1904. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1925 and 1926, respectively, his research being done under Dr. W. Lash Miller. His entire professional career was spent in the field of batteries with the Union Carbide Corp. He began by joining the Canadian National Carbon Co., Toronto in 1926 as control chemist. In 1928, he was transferred to…
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ECS President | 1977-1978 Douglas N. Bennion was born in Ogden, Utah on March 10, 1935. He attended public schools in Corvalis, Oregon. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Dr. Bennion worked at Dow Chemical, Pittsburg, California, from 1957 to 1960 as a chemical engineer. Assignments included working in the utilities department associated with chlorine-caustic production, organic chemicals…
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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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