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ECS President | 1969-1970 Nelson Cory Cahoon was born in Bloomfield, Ontario, Canada on October 12, 1904. He received his A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1925 and 1926, respectively, his research being done under Dr. W. Lash Miller. His entire professional career was spent in the field of batteries with the Union Carbide Corp. He began by joining the Canadian National Carbon Co., Toronto in 1926 as control chemist. In 1928, he was transferred to…
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ECS President | 1977-1978 Douglas N. Bennion was born in Ogden, Utah on March 10, 1935. He attended public schools in Corvalis, Oregon. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State College in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Dr. Bennion worked at Dow Chemical, Pittsburg, California, from 1957 to 1960 as a chemical engineer. Assignments included working in the utilities department associated with chlorine-caustic production, organic chemicals…
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ECS President | 1987-1988 Fritz G. Will was born in Breslau, Germany on January 12, 1931. He received his B.S. degree in Physics in 1953, his M.S., and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1959 all from the Technical University, Munich, Germany. His thesis, under the direction of Professor C.A. Knorr, was on the “Investigation of Hydrogen and Oxygen Chemisorbed Layers on Noble Metal Electrodes with a New Non-Steady State Method”. Dr. Will joined the research staff of the U.S. Army…
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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 | 1995-1996 Kathryn Rice Bullock was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on September 24, 1945. She received a B.A. in English with a chemistry minor from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1967. She became interested in electrochemistry while working as a Research technician on Ni/Zn batteries at Gates Company, Denver. She enrolled in Northwestern University for graduate work. In 1969, she was an Electrochemical Society Summer fellow and earned an M.S. in Chemistry. She became a National Institutes…
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ECS President | 2003-2004 Bruno Scrosati received his degree in chemistry in 1966, and in 1969, his doctoral degree in electrochemistry, both from the University of Rome. From 1964 to 1966, he was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. In 1970 and 1971, he was a Summer Visiting Scientist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Since 1980 he has been a full professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Rome. In…
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