Innovators in battery technology : profiles of 93 influential electrochemists / Kevin Desmond ; foreword by Michael Halls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, Kevin, 1950- author.

Contributor:

Halls, Michael, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemists--Biography.

Chemists.

Electrochemistry--History.

Electrochemistry.

Electric batteries--History.

Electric batteries.

Energy storage--Research.

Energy storage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This biographical dictionary profiles 85 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have researched and developed efficient batteries and energy cells. Each entry traces the subject's origin, education, discoveries and patents, hobbies and family life. The breakthroughs of early innovators are cataloged and the work of living scientists and technicians is brought up to date"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Foreword by Michael Halls ; Preface ; The Innovators (A-Z); André, Henri-Georges (1896-1967); Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904-1992) ; Bagotsky, Vladimir Sergeevich (1920-2012); Bagshaw, Norman Ernest (1933- ) ; Bain, Alexander (1810-1877) ; Barak, Montefiore (1904-1989) ; Bode, Hans Heinrich Christian (1905-1989)

Böhnstedt, Werner (1945- ) Brush, Charles Francis (1849-1929) ; Bullock, Kathryn R. (1945- ) ; Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811-1899) ; Burbank, Jeanne B. (1915-2002) ; Burgess, Charles Frederick (1873-1945) ; Cairns, Elton James (1932- ) ; Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799-1864)

Chapin, Daryl M. (1906-1995), Calvin Souther Fuller (1902-1994) and Gerald Leondus Pearson (1905-1987)Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822-1898) ; Coetzer, Johan (1941- ) ; Conway, Brian Evans (1927-2005) ; Cooper, John Frederick (1946- ) ; Daniell, John Frederic (1790-1845) ; Davy, Humphry (1778-1829) ; Devitt, John Lawrence (1925- )

Dicks, Andrew Leslie (1948- ) Drumm, James J. (1897-1974) ; Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931) ; Faure, Camille Alphonse (1840-1898) ; Feder, David O. (1924-2011) ; Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) ; Furukawa, Jun (1957- ) ; Garche, Jürgen Werner (1944- ) ; Gassner, Carl (1839-1882)

Goodenough, John Bannister (1922- ) Grätzel, Michael (1944- ) ; Greatbatch, Wilson (1919-2011) ; Green, Martin Andrew (1948- ) ; Grey, Clare P. (1965- ) ; Grove, William Robert (1811-1896) ; Hare, Robert (1781-1858) ; Haring, Howard Egbert (1898-1965) ; Hatazawa, Tsuyonobu (1962- )

Hellesen, Frederik Louis Wilhelm (1836-1892)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78785-741-7

1-4766-2278-7