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Informationen zum Autor Kevin Desmond, a technology historian and biographer, lives near Bordeaux in southern France. Since 1976, he has published 33 books and 300-plus articles on the men and women innovators, often forgotten, behind the progress of transport and related subjects. Klappentext As the world's demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize the planet's mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary profiles 95 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have researched and developed ever more efficient batteries and energy cells. Each entry traces the subject's origin, education, discoveries and patents, as well as hobbies and family life. The breakthroughs of early innovators are cataloged and the work of living scientists and technicians is brought up to date. An appendix provides a cross-referenced timeline of innovation. Zusammenfassung As world demand for electrical energy increases! it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enables us to utilize the planet's mineral reserves responsibly. This biographical dictionary profiles 85 electrochemists from 19 nations who during the past 270 years have researched and developed ever more efficient batteries and energy cells. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgments deletevForeword by Michael HallsPrefaceThe 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)Jache, Otto (1915-1993)Jacques, William W. (1855-1932)Jedlik, Ányos (1800-1895)Jungner, Ernst Waldemar (1869-1924)Kabanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904-1988)Kelley, Kurtis C. (1952- )Kirchhof, Charles F. (1811-1882)König, Wilhelm (fl. 1930s)Kordesch, Karl V. (1922-2011)Lam, Lan Trieu (1953- )Leclanché, Georges (1839-1882)Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875-1946) and Frederick George Keyes (1885-1976)Monahov, Boris Ivanov (1954- )Moseley, Patrick Timothy (1943- )Musschenbroek, Pieter (Petrus) van (1692-1761)Nora, Vittorio de (1912-2008)Ogumi, Zempachi (1945- )Ohl, Russell Shoemaker (1898-1987)Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert (1922-2012)Pavlov, Detchko (1930- )Peters, Kenneth (1928- )Pierson, John Ronald (1936- )Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston (1834-1889)Prengaman, R. David (1943- )Rand, David Anthony James (1942¿)Renard, Charles (1847-1905)Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776-1810)Ruben, Samuel (1900-1988)Ruetschi, Paul (1925- )Sadoway, Donald Robert (1950- )Salkind, Alvin J. (1927-2015)Sampson, Henry Thomas (1934- )Sastry, Ann Marie (1967- )Scrosati, Bruno (1...
