Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists - Softcover

Desmond, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786499338 ISBN 13: 9780786499335

Publisher: McFarland & Co, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786499338
• ISBN 13: 9780786499335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280