Through generous donations from friends, colleagues, and members of the scientific community, the Jan Talbot Collection officially reached a fundraising milestone of $30,000, ensuring free, permanent access to Talbot’s legacy of ECS-published works.
A longtime ECS member, Talbot served as board president (2001-2002), vice president (1998-2001), and editor of Interface (1995-1998). She was inducted as a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in 2004. Talbot’s career outside ECS is equally impressive. Since 2000, Talbot has directed the Chemical Engineering Program at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering. She served as their associate dean from 2014-2016. In 2010, she received a UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award. Talbot chaired the Academic Senate from 2003-2004. She also worked as a development engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, from 1975-1981.
“It amazes me that ECS, its journals, and its meetings were the main venue for my research interests over 30 years, which has spanned applications of corrosion, magnetic recording, semiconductor processing, and solid state lighting,” Talbot reflects. “It has truly been my professional home.”
Talbot’s collection includes 42 Journal of The Electrochemical Society papers and six ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology papers. Her body of work focuses on electrophoretic deposition, electrodeposition, chemical mechanical polishing, display screen processing, solid state lightning materials, materials science, and electrochemical transport phenomena and engineering.
Talbot retired on July 1, 2018. A sponsored collection was created in the ECS Digital Library to celebrate her body of work. Talbot funded the collection’s creation through a generous $10,000 donation. An additional goal of $20,000 to free the collection was met in December 2019.
Thank you to the individuals, ECS divisions, and organizations whose generous contributions helped free this collection.
ECS sponsored collections are generously supported by the family, friends, students, and colleagues of ECS authors. The author’s significant contribution to their particular field, the Society, and the wider scientific community is honored by compiling all of their published articles from ECS journals and other publications in a collection, and aiming to make their research freely accessible.
If you are interested in discussing the opportunity to develop your own sponsored collection or be named on a leadership collection, please contact Publications at publications@electrochem.org.
