ECS President | 1935-1936 James H. Critchett was born in Watertown, Mass. in 1886. His technical education was obtained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1909. He was employed by the U.S. Steel Corporation at the South Chicago plant. His first job was on the installation of one of the first large electric steel furnaces to be installed in America. Later he became assistant superintendent of the Electric Furnace Department. The following years were spent in the construction and…
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ECS President | 1941-1942 Raymond R. Ridgway was born in Morris, Illinois on August 27, 1897. He was one of the outstanding research men in electrothermics in the 20s and 30s. He was a research engineer with the Norton Company of Chippawa, Ontario, Canada. He contributed a long list of inventions in the design of electric furnaces of the resistor type; improvements in the production of fused alumina, silicon carbide and magnesia; and the production of hard metal carbides. One…
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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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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 | 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 | 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 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 Technology Award Corrosion Division Early-Career...
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Nomination deadline: Nominations are not accepted. Presented: In the anniversary year that an institutional partner reaches a milestone level. The Society began recognizing long-term supporters with Leadership Circle Awards in the fall of 2002. The award honors and thanks our partners in electrochemistry and solid state science in the year that they reach a participation milestone level. Recipient qualifications Recipients are institutional partners in good standing honored for their loyal support. Award The award consists of: Commemorative plaque; Recognition on...
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Nomination period: October 31, odd years – January 31, even years  Presented: Fall meeting, even years The Edward Goodrich Acheson Award was established in 1928 to recognize distinguished contributions to the advancement of any of the objects, purposes or activities of The Electrochemical Society. Eligibility criteria The recipient is distinguished for contributions consisting of: Discovery pertaining to electrochemical and/or solid state science and technology; Invention of a plan, process or device or research evidenced by a paper embodying information useful,...
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