Topic : Advancing Solid state and Electrochemical Science and Technology——A Review of 116-year History and Current Status of ECS (The Electrochemical Society)

Speaker:Prof. Yue Kuo (郭育教授, Texas A&M University), ECS Fellow, ECS President

Time: 13:30-15:00,December 10, 2018

Venue: Room on the 1st Floor, Building B5, University Town Campus

Biography:At the very beginning, 1902, ECS was called the American Electrochemical Society, but, it was, even then, a melting pot of scientific and technological disciplines, and of their adherents, who participated from around the globe. ECS is composed of two major disciplines: Solid state (semiconductor) and electrochemical science and technology. They are of the same size and equally important.

Many of ECS’s founding members are prominent scientists and engineers, including: E. G. Acheson, chemist who first commercialized artificial graphite; H. H. Dow, founder of the Dow Chemical Company—the largest chemical company in the U.S.; C. M. Hall, inventor of the Hall–Héroult process—the major industrial process for smelting aluminum; Edward Weston, inventor of the Weston cell that has become a voltage standard worldwide; Thomas A. Edison, 28-year member of ECS since 1903; Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation who joined ECS in 1957. Moore first proposed the Moore’s law in 1965, describing and predicting that the number of transistors and electric resistances per integrated circuit would double every year (later revised to a doubling every 18 months).

Nobel Prize laureates can also be found among ECS members and authors of ECS publications, including Isamu Akasaki (physics, 2014), Rudolph A. Marcus (chemistry, 1992), Hiroshi Amano (physics, 2014), Shuji Nakamura (physics, 2014), Richard Smalley (chemistry, 1996), and Jack Kilby (physics, 2000).