Nomination deadline: None, no call for nominations
Presented: At the corresponding Society meeting
The designation of Honorary Membership was established in 1919 for outstanding contributions to The Electrochemical Society.
Honorary Membership is an exclusive recognition only bestowed on long-standing members who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of electrochemistry and allied disciplines, and have contributed substantial service to ECS in an appointed or elected capacity. There are currently 82 Honorary Members of the Society.
Recipient qualifications
Qualifications for consideration include:
- Participation in Society, ECS Division, and ECS Section activities such as organization and arrangement of Society and/or local meetings;
- Special weight is given to participation in Society activities, since the divisions and sections have other means of recognizing distinguished service at these levels;
- Activities and contributions that foster the aims and image of The Electrochemical Society;
- ECS membership is not required.
Nomination process
A complete nomination package includes:
- Completed electronic Award Nomination Form;
- At least two, but no more than five supporting letters (one page in length);
- Additional documents that may be included:
- Curriculum vitae
- Publications list
- Other pertinent information supporting and strengthening the candidate’s nomination.
Award
The award consists of:
- Framed scroll bearing the recipient’s name, signed by the President and Secretary of the Society;
- Honorary Members pay no annual dues and have all the rights and privileges of ECS Members.
Questions
Contact awards@electrochem.org with questions or for more information.
Review the Society’s robust Honors & Awards and Fellowships & Grants Programs.
Recipients
*Deceased
1991-2020
M. Stanley Whittingham
Akira Yoshino
(2020)
Roque Calvo
(2018)
Dennis Hess
(2016)
Adam Heller
(2015)
Allen J. Bard*
John B. Goodenough*
(2013)
Gordon E. Moore*
John S. Newman
Jerry M. Woodall
(2007)
Robert P. Frankenthal*
Larry Faulkner
Lubomyr Romankiw
(2003)
Jefferson C. Cole*
(2001)
Barry Miller
(1999)
Robert S. Karpiuk*
Frederick J. Strieter
Wayne L. Worrell*
(1996)
Richard C. Alkire
Bertram Schwartz*
J. Bruce Wagner, Jr.*
Vernon H. Branneky*
(1991)
1978-1990
Glenn W. Cullen*
James C. Acheson*
(1990)
Douglas N. Bennion*
Ralph J. Brodd*
Jerome Kruger*
(1987)
Paul C. Milner*
Harold J. Read*
Forrest A. Trumbore*
(1986)
John L. Griffin*
Erik M. Pell*
Samuel Ruben*
(1983)
N. Bruce Hannay*
Theodore R. Beck*
Vittorio de Nora*
(1982)
Michael J. Pryor*
Francis L. LaQue*
(1981)
Dennis R. Turner*
Henry F. Ivey*
Walter J. Hamer*
(1980)
Ralph M. Hunter*
(1979)
Harry C. Gatos*
(1978)
1947-1977
Ernest B. Yeager*
David A. Vermilyea*
Charles W. Tobias*
(1977)
Ivor E. Campbell*
(1976)
Ernest G. Enck*
William C. Gardiner*
(1975)
Henry B. Linford*
Sherlock Swann*
(1974)
Cecil V. King*
Herbert H. Uhlig*
Norman Hackerman*
(1973)
Howard A. Acheson*
Charles L. Faust*
(1971)
A. Kenneth Graham*
(1963)
Stanislaus Skowronski*
Oliver W. Storey*
(1962)
Robert M. Burns*
George W. Heise*
Frank C. Mathers*
(1959)
William Blum*
(1953)
John W. Marden*
(1947)
1919-1946
Colin G. Fink*
Oliver W. Brown*
(1946)
Willis R. Whitney*
Paul J. Kruesi*
(1944)
Archer E. Wheeler*
(1941)
Robert A. Witherspoon*
(1940)
Leo H. Baekeland*
(1936)
Frederick M. Becket*
(1934)
Charles F. Burgess*
(1932)
Edward Dean Adams*
(1930)
W. Lash Miller*
(1929)
Thomas A. Edison*
(1928)
Edward Weston*
(1926)
Wilder D. Bancroft*
(1925)
Edward G. Acheson*
(1923)
Carl Hering*
(1922)
Charles F. Chandler*
Edgar F. Smith*
(1919)
