Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - We have been sadly notified that Professor Allen J. Bard passed away
Dear readers of the Journal,
We have been sadly notified that Professor Allen J. Bard of the University of Texas at Austin passed away on February 11.
Professor Bard was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal since its inception and was one of the prominent and most influential electrochemists of our time. He has gained a reputation for his vast and impacted contribution to many research fields across electrochemistry. Such fields include and are not limited to semiconductors electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrochemistry kinetics and the utilization of scanning electrochemical microcopy. He has published numerous books and articles, shining in his legacy. Prof. Bard has established many academic followers and scholars among the next generation who had caught with the affection and passion to electrochemistry.
The electrochemistry community will dearly miss him.
- Yair Ein-Eli, Editor-in-Chief
To learn more about his life, read the editorial (this opens in a new tab) for the Festschrift JOSSEC published in his honor (this opens in a new tab) on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Together with JOSSEC’s founding editor Fritz Scholz and former Topical Editor George Inzelt he published the Electrochemical Dictionary (this opens in a new tab), a comprehensive manual for electrochemists.
A photo (taken on September 28, 2010 at the ISE Meeting in Nice) showing the three editors with the newly released first edition of the Electrochemical Dictionary. Left: George Inzelt, middle: Al Bard, right: Fritz Scholz.