The award will be given for the best paper published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) by a young author or co-authors for the volume year preceding the award.
Nomination: The Young Author Awards selection committees look at all qualified papers published in the prior volume year to find candidates.
Presented: Yearly
Recipient qualifications
The author or co-authors of the paper must be under 31 years of age at the date of receipt of the paper.
Award
The award consists of a framed scroll and a prize of US $1,500 to be divided among the eligible authors of the winning paper. In addition, the authors share a US $1,000 travel grant in order to attend the meeting where the award will be presented. The winning author(s) will also be given a complimentary one-year membership in ECS to begin on June 1.
About Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman began as a Professor at the University of Texas and rose to serve as the university President. He would also serve as President of Rice University. At ECS, he was Chair of the Corrosion Division and Technical Editor of the Society journal for 39 years.
Recipients
1999-2024
Lydia Meyer
(2024)
Prachi Pragnya
(2022)
Simon Burkhardt
Philip Minnmann
Franziska Friedrich
(2021)
Stefan Oswald
(2020)
Takanori Akita
(2019)
Jan Schwämmlein
(2018)
Raymond Smith
(2017)
Mark Burgess
Kenneth Hernandez-Burgos
(2016)
Trevor M. Braun
(2015)
Nathaniel D. Leonard
(2014)
Rahul Malik
Aziz Abdellahi
(2013)
Kiersten C. Horning
K. Sykes Mason
Balavinayagam Ramalingam
(2012)
Sebastien Couet
Claudia Fleischmann
Philipp Hönicke
Koen Schouteden
Igor Volov
(2011)
Xingbao Zhu
Stephen E. Potts
Erik Langereis
Gijs Dingemans
(2010)
Paul Albertus
Louis Hutin
(2009)
Kevin Ralston
Eu Jin Tan
Yudi Setiawan
(2008)
Stefen Eccarius
Antonius van Niftrik
(2007)
Mathieu Bervas
Pradeep Dixit
(2006)
Masayuki Kunimatsu
Stefano Borini
(2005)
Rohan Akolkar
Yi-Koan Hong
(2004)
Krishnakumar Jambunathan
Mitsuo Miyamoto
Seiji Noda
(2003)
Timothy J. Pricer
Pooi See Lee
(2002)
Jay F. Whitacre
Petra Feichtinger
(2001)
Robert T. Leah
J. W. Klaus
(2000)
Asuncion Bautista
Patricia A. O’Neil
(1999)
1981-1998
Alastair D. Robertson
Yang Shao-Horn
Sita R. Kaluri
(1998)
Akshaya K. Padhi
Sang M. Han
(1997)
Jan Halvor Nordlien
Jewon Lee
(1996)
Robert Vidal
George D. Papasouliotis
(1995)
Hubert A. Gasteiger
Frank R. Myers
(1994)
Pushkar P. Apte
Alan West
(1993)
David Bivings Bonham
Eray S. Aydil
(1992)
Triantafillos J. Mountziaris
J. Vernon Cole
Donald Wayne Suggs
Brian W. Gregory
(1991)
Mark W. Verbrugge
Carmen J. Giunta
(1990)
Oskar E. Husser
Derek H. Craston
Joseph M. Rosamilia
James H. Comfort
(1989)
Jennifer A. Bardwell
Chien-Jih Han
(1988)
Christopher P. Wilde
Philip N. Bartlett
Joachim Maier
(1987)
Jocelyn Richer
T. Tanaka
(1986)
Joseph C. Farmer
Gottlieb S. Oehrlein
(1985)
Ned A. Godshall
Eliot K. Broadbent
(1984)
Peter G. Pickup
Klavs F. Jensen
David B. Graves
(1983)
D. W. Sittari
T. Paul Chow
(1982)
Willem J. P. Van Enckevort
Mart W. M. Graef
Calvin Yi-Ping Chao
L. F. Lin
(1981)
1959-1980
Eiji Takayama
Hannah Reller
(1980)
Da Yu Wang
Charles W. Magee
(1979)
Alejandro Gomez-Gonzalez
Chi-Hwa Tsang
Dimitri A. Antoniadis
(1978)
Christian W. Manke
Jean Horkans
(1977)
Barry MacDougall
Shivadev K. Ubhayakar
(1976)
Larry R. Faulkner
Sandro Solmi
Paolo Negrini
(1975)
Steven H. Cadle
Ashok Dalvi
(1974)
Murrae J. Bowden
Larry Thompson
Daniel Simonsson
(1973)
M. A. Hopper
Franz Kuhn-Kuhnenfeld
(1972)
Der-Tau Chin
M. Stanley Whittingham
(1971)
John Appleby
Dennis C. Johnson
(1970)
Glenn Dryhurst
John Newman
William R. Parrish
(1969)
Gilles G. Charette
(1968)
Howard W. Pickering
(1967)
John Newman
(1966)
Robert E. Visco
(1965)
Richard E. Westerman
(1964)
James A. Cunningham
(1963)
Michael J. Dignam
(1962)
John D. Newson
(1961)
A. C. Makrides
(1960)
Franz A. Posey
(1959)
1929-1958
Milton Stern
(1958)
Paul Ruetschi
(1957)
Ralph S. Cooper
(1956)
Milton Stern
(1955)
Michael J. Pryor
(1954)
Jack Halpern
(1953)
William E. Kuhn
(1952)
John T. Byrne
(1951)
George W. Murphy
(1950)
John C. Griess, Jr.
(1949)
Michael A. Streicher
(1948)
Henry Leidheiser, Jr.
(1947)
Norman. A. Nielsen
(1946)
Austin E. Hardy
(1945)
John P. Coyle
(1944)
Walter G. Berl
(1943)
Sidney Speil
(1942)
Edward Adler
(1941)
Johnstone S. Mackay
(1940)
George A. Moore
(1939)
Nathaniel B. Nichols
(1938)
R. Spencer Soanes
(1937)
William A. Johnson
(1936)
Upton B. Thomas, Jr.
(1935)
Joseph R. Heard, Jr.
(1934)
Bruce L. Bailey
(1933)
Frank W. Godsey, Jr.
(1932)
Frank L. Jones
(1931)
Dwight K. Alpern
(1930)
William C. Gardiner
(1929)
