ECS President | 1908-1909 Edward Goodrich Acheson, a charter member and President of the Society (1908-1909), was born in Washington, PA, on March 9, 1856. From the age of 30 to 70, he received 69 patents on devices, techniques, and compositions of matter in the fields of mechanics, electricity, electrochemistry, and colloid chemistry. His father’s death required Acheson to start work at the age of 16 to help support his family. He held various railroad jobs, performing scientific work and…
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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 | 1974-1975 David Agustas Vermilyea was born on October 11, 1923 in Troy, New York. He entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1940. He spent three years in the U.S. Army during 1943-1946, including eighteen months in the European Theater of Operations. He returned to Rensselaer and received a B.S. in Metallurgy in 1947. He worked for one year as a plant metallurgist at the Belle, West Virginia plant of E.I. duPont de Nemours Co. Inc. In 1948 he…
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ECS President | 1978-1979 ECS Secretary | 1968-1974 Dennis Robert Turner was born in London, England on January 13, 1920. He received a B.A. degree from Lake Forest College in 1942. From 1942 to 1945, he worked at Westinghouse Research Labs on R&D of Radar components. He invented a method of electropolishing silver using an anodic pulsing technique. This work led to the development of the Periodic Reverse (PR) current plating process. After WWII, Dr. Turner entered graduate school at…
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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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Don’t miss your chance to participate in IMLB 2016! This international meeting will provide an exciting forum to discuss recent progress in advanced lithium batteries for energy storage and conversion. IMLB focuses on both basic and applied research findings that have led to improved Li battery materials, and to the understanding of the fundamental processes that determine and control electrochemical performance. A major (but not exclusive) theme of the meeting will address recent advances in beyond lithium-ion technologies. The meeting…
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ECS President | 1907-1908 Charles Frederick Burgess was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on January 5, 1873. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with an electrical engineering degree in 1895. He then took up a study of physical chemistry and electrochemistry while teaching. He became well known for his research on electrolytic iron and dry cells. He founded the Burgess battery Company and published many of his research and developments in the transactions of the Society. He and his organization…
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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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ECS President | 1947-1948 George William Heise was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 27, 1888. He received his B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin. For the next two years, he taught at Grinnell College in Iowa and at DePaul University in Chicago where he was head of the Department of Physics. In 1911, he returned to the University of Wisconsin to work with Dr. Louis J. Kahlenberg (Society President 1930-1931). He received the M.S. degree in 1912. He…
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ECS President | 1963-1964 Walter J. Hamer was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1907. After receiving his undergraduate training at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., he attended Yale University graduate school and obtained his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1932. In 1966 he was awarded an honorary D.S. from Juniata College at the dedication of its new Science Center. He returned to Yale for two years as a U.S. Navy post doctorate Research Fellow. In July 1934,…
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