Andrzej Wieckowski
Chemistry professor (1945-2019)
Andrzej Wieckowski (Polish: Andrzej Więckowski, February 22, 1945 – January 31, 2019) was an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the North American Editor of Electrochimica Acta. He is known for his spectroscopic investigations of electrocatalysis in fuel cells and co-inventing of the direct formic acid fuel cell (DFAFC). He authored more than 300 publications, has been cited over 13,000 times and has an h-index 60.
He was appointed fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2007 and fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2009. He was awarded the US Department of Energy Prize for outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry in 1992, the ISE Jacques Tacussel Prize in 1998, the ECS David. C. Graham Award in 2003, and the ISE Gold Medal in 2007.
Career
Andrzej Wieckowski earned his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1973 and his D.Sc. (habilitation) in 1981 from the University of Warsaw, Poland. Over that time, he published over thirty publications mostly focusing on electrochemical and radiochemical investigations of the structure and reactivity of small molecules, such as carbon dioxide, formic acid or methanol, at metal surfaces.
From 1981 to 1982, Andrzej Wieckowski was a visiting professor at Laval University in Quebec, Canada.
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