ECS program addresses world sanitation problems In its first “Science for Solving Society’s Problems Challenge,” ECS partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to leverage the brainpower of the many scientists in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology that regularly attend ECS meetings. The four grantees were identified during a multi-day workshop at the Electrochemical Energy and Water Summit in Mexico held October 2014. Working together Over 100 researchers were guided through a brainstorming and working group session...
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ECS President | 1938-1939 Robert L. Baldwin was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 8, 1884. In 1895, he moved with his parents Conneaut, Ohio. On graduating from high school there in 1901, he went to Chicago where he found employment in the freight Department of the American Steel and Wire Company. Early in 1902, he was transferred to the Chemical Laboratory of the Newburgh Works the Company at Cleveland, Ohio. From the Laboratory, he went on to the Bessemer…
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Many ECS divisions and sections offer travel grants to undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young professionals & faculty presenting papers at ECS biannual meetings. Applications must be received no later than submission deadlines listed below. Divisions/Sections may have additional application requirements. Please review the additional requirements for each division/section prior to filling out the online application. Important note: Applicants may only apply for a travel grant from one division. The following divisions & sections currently offer travel grants: Student...
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ECS President | 1970-1971 Charles William Tobias was born in Budapest, Hungary on November 2, 1920. Following high school and graduation from the Municipal Conservatory of Music, he received his Chemical Engineer's diploma from the University of Technical Sciences (Muegyetem) in Budapest. After one year of military service with the Army Engineers, he was employed by the radio tube division of United Incandescent Lamp and Electrical Co., Ltd., between 1942-1947. He held a Demonstrator's appointment in the Institute of Physical...
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ECS President | 1984-1985 ECS Secretary | 1974-1980 Paul Chambers Milner was born in Washington, D.C. on August 23, 1931. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Haverford College in 1952 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1954 and 1956. He was a General Electric Co. Fellow at Princeton in 1954-1955. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in 1957. He carried out studies on…
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ECS President | 1992-1993 Wayne L. Worrell was born in Rock Island, Illinois on October 25, 1937. He received his B.S. and Ph.D.(1963) from M.I.T. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania where he became Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1974. Dr. Worrell was a Visiting Scholar at the Imperial College, University of London in 1970, a Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the…
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ECS President | 2004-2005 ECS Secretary | 1996-2000 Robin Susko a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM’s Microelectronics Division in East Fishkill, New York, is responsible for driving strategic aspects of electronic packaging materials, processing metallization, assembly, and associated reliability and performance in the Products and Packaging Quality and Reliability Organization. Prior to joining IBM, Susko worked for Sprague Electric’s Hybrid Division in Worcester, Massachusetts, as a semiconductor process engineer. At IBM, Susko has had extensive experience in product risk…
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ECS President | 2014-2015 Paul A. Kohl was born in Buffalo, NY on August 6, 1952. He received his BS degree from Bethany College in 1974 and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas in 1978, both in Chemistry. Dr. Kohl began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ where he was involved in creating new chemical processes for silicon, compound semiconductor, and MEMS devices or their packages. In 1989 he left AT&T Bell Laboratories to join...
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ECS President | 1915-1916 Lawrence Addicks was born in Philadelphia, PA on March 3, 1878. He received a B.S. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899. He worked as a draftsman in New Mexico for a year before joined Raritan Copper Company in 1900. He was in charge of the testing laboratory and later became assistant to the superintendent. From 1905 to 1914, Addicks was Chief Engineer and Superintendent for U.S. Metals Refining. In 1914, he resigned and became…
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ECS President | 1921-1947 Colin Garfield Fink was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 31, 1881. After graduation from Columbia University in 1903, he went to Leipzig for graduate study. Here he received the Ph.D. degree with highest honors. Returning to America he joined the research staff of the General Electric Company. In 1917 Dr. Fink became chief chemist for the Chile Exploration Company and went from that position, in 1921, to Columbia where he became head of the…
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