This biographical dictionary profiles electrochemists from all over the world who 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.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Michael Halls
• Preface
• A
• André, Henri-Georges (1896–1967)
• B
• Bacon, Francis Thomas (1904–1992)
• Bagotsky, Vladimir Sergeevich (1920–2012)
• Bagshaw, Norman Ernest (1933– )
• Bain, Alexander (1810–1877)
• Barak, Montefiore (1904–1989)
• Bode, Hans Heinrich Christian (1905–1989)
• Böhnstedt, Werner (1945– )
• Brush, Charles Francis (1849–1929)
• Bullock, Kathryn R. (1945– )
• Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard (1811–1899)
• Burbank, Jeanne B. (1915–2002)
• Burgess, Charles Frederick (1873–1945)
• C
• Cairns, Elton James (1932– )
• Callan, Nicholas Joseph (1799–1864)
• Chapin, Daryl M. (1906–1995), Calvin Souther Fuller (1902–1994), Gerald Leondus Pearson (1905–1987)
• Clark, Josiah Latimer (1822–1898)
• Coetzer, Johan (1941– )
• Conway, Brian Evans (1927–2005)
• Cooper, John Frederick (1946– )
• D
• Daniell, John Frederic (1790–1845)
• Davy, Humphry (1778–1829)
• Devitt, John Lawrence (1925– )
• Dicks, Andrew Leslie (1948– )
• Drumm, James J. (1897–1974)
• E
• Edison, Thomas Alva (1847–1931)
• F
• Faure, Camille Alphonse (1840–1898)
• Feder, David O. (1924–2011)
• Franklin, Benjamin (1706–1790)
• Furukawa, Jun (1957– )
• G
• Garche, Jürgen Werner (1944– )
• Gassner, Carl (1839–1882)
• Goodenough, John Bannister (1922– )
• Grätzel, Michael (1944– )
• Greatbatch, Wilson (1919–2011)
• Green, Martin Andrew (1948– )
• Grey, Clare P. (1965– )
• Grove, William Robert (1811–1896)
• H
• Hare, Robert (1781–1858)
• Haring, Howard Egbert (1898–1965)
• Hatazawa, Tsuyonobu (1962– )
• Hellesen, Frederik Louis Wilhelm (1836–1892)
• J
• Jache, Otto (1915–1993)
• Jacques, William W. (1855–1932)
• Jedlik, Ányos (1800–1895)
• Jungner, Ernst Waldemar (1869–1924)
• K
• Kabanov, Boris Nikolaevich (1904–1988)
• Kelley, Kurtis C. (1952– )
• Kirchhof, Charles F. (1811–1882)
• König, Wilhelm (fl. 1930s; dates unknown)
• Kordesch, Karl V. (1922–2011)
• L
• Lam, Lan Trieu (1953– )
• Leclanché, Georges (1839–1882)
• Lewis, Gilbert Newton (1875–1946)
• M
• Monahov, Boris Ivanov (1954– )
• Moseley, Patrick Timothy (1943– )
• Musschenbroek, Pieter (Petrus) van (1692–1761)
• N
• Nora, Vittorio de
• O
• Ogumi, Zempachi (1945– )
• Ohl, Russell Shoemaker (1898–1987)
• Ovshinsky, Stanford Robert (1922–2012)
• P
• Pavlov, Detchko (1930– )
• Peters, Kenneth (1928– )
• Pierson, John Ronald (1936– )
• Planté, Raymond-Louis-Gaston (1834–1889)
• Prengaman, R. David (1943– )
• R
• Rand, David Anthony James (1942‒)
• Renard, Charles (1847–1905)
• Ritter, Johann Wilhelm (1776–1810)
• Ruben, Samuel (1900–1988)
• Ruetschi, Paul (1925– )
• S
• Sadoway, Donald Robert (1950– )
• Salkind, Alvin J. (1927–2015)
• Sampson, Henry Thomas (1934– )
• Sastry, Ann Marie (1967– )
• Scrosati, Bruno (1937– )
• Sinsteden, Wilhelm Josef (1803–1891)
• Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria (1951– )
• Smee, Alfred (1818–1877)
• Sudworth, James (1939–2013)
• T
• Takeuchi, Esther Sans (1953– )
• Thackeray, Michael Makepeace (1949– )
• Tobias, Charles W. (1920–1996)
• Trouvé, Gustave Pierre (1939–1902)
• U
• Urry, Lewis F. (1927–2004)
• V
• Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio (1745–1827)
• Voss, Ernst Christian Hinrich (1923–2004)
• W
• Whittingham, M. Stanley (1941– )
• Wollaston, William Hyde (1766–1828)
• Y
• Yai, Sakizou
• Yeager, Ernest B. (1924–2002)
• Z
• Zamboni, Giuseppe (1776–1846)
• Appendix: Timeline
• Bibliography
• List of Names and Terms