In this collection of interrelated essays, the authors review landmark developments in electrochemistry building on biographic material and personal insight. The book facilitates understanding of the innate pathways of developments in electrochemical science as a result of lucky circumstances fitting to objective conditions. Thus the book will help to understand the present state of electrochemistry and offer inspiration for solving today’s scientific challenges. The authors as experienced electrochemists from the U.S., Western and Eastern Europe also provide guidance for scientific careers by presenting biographical examples of famous electrochemists.
Author(s): Fritz Scholz (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: XII, 471
Tags: Electrochemistry; History of Science; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Electrochemistry in a Divided World: The Political Background....Pages 7-11
The Czech (Czechoslovak) Electrochemistry 1900–1990....Pages 13-48
The Frumkin Era in Electrochemistry....Pages 49-96
The Development of Voltammetric Electroanalysis in the Former USSR....Pages 97-178
The Development of Electrochemistry in Lithuania....Pages 179-210
Before the Iron Curtain Came Down: Electrochemistry and Electrochemists in Kiev in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century....Pages 211-227
The Ural School of Solid State Electrochemistry in the USSR....Pages 229-255
Organic Electrochemistry in the USSR....Pages 257-314
Professor Kemula School of Electrochemistry and Electroanalytical Chemistry at the University of Warsaw in Time of a Divided World....Pages 315-331
Fifty Years of Electrochemistry in Poland and Abroad: Personal Account....Pages 333-358
Hungarian Comets in the Sky of Electrochemistry....Pages 359-399
Contributions from Electrochemists in Bulgaria....Pages 401-430
Hans-Heinrich Möbius and the Development of Electrochemistry with Solid Electrolytes....Pages 431-443
Electrochemistry in Saxony, East Germany, Before 1989: Kurt Schwabe in Dresden and Meinsberg....Pages 445-455
Publishing in a Divided World....Pages 457-460
Erratum to: The Development of Voltammetric Electroanalysis in the Former USSR....Pages E1-E3
Back Matter....Pages 461-471
