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The texts collected at this page are quite diverse, from popular articles to perspectives written by professional electrochemists. Again, there is an intersection with the Zoltan Nagy’s ECS collection, but the items are structured to certain extent.

Here, we would like to mention systematic contributions by a number of colleagues who devoted their time to history of electrochemistry in parallel with active original research.

Prof. Fritz Scholz and Prof. George Inzelt are very important persons in preserving and disseminating the history of electrochemistry. In addition to many historical texts they both published, they co-edited (jointly with Prof. Allen J. Bard) “Electrochemical Dictionary” (2nd edition in 2008). This dictionary contains a lot of historical information in the vast majority of items.

A great initiative of Prof. Scholz is a book “Electrochemistry in a divided world” (2015) containing 17 chapters. This book presents electrochemical schools from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine, which actively operated even behind the Iron Curtain. We continued this story in the special issue of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry.

Prof. John T. Stock (1911-2005) was a very active historian with the emphasis on the history of instrumentation. He also edited (jointly with Mary Virginia Orna) “Electrochemistry, Past and Present” (1989). This collection consists of 39 chapters and starts from Stock’s “Electrochemistry in Retrospect”, addressing the roots of various branches including applied electrochemistry. The 2011 special issue of the J. Solid State Electrochem. named “Electrochemistry – Past, Present, and Future” echoes this collection. This issue was co-edited by F. Scholz, G. Inselt, and S. Fletcher.

Prof. Jānis Stradiņš (1933-2019) was the biographer of Frumkin, and authored a number of texts about other electrochemists. He has also systematically studied the history of research in Baltic states, and especially of research in Latvia as his native country.

We should also mention collection of articles related to the ISE/CITCE history, and ECS history webpage.