7 lives in this collection worked in electrochemistry, from 1745 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Often together with: chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry. All fields
Lombard physicist who invented the electrophorus, the condenser and the voltaic pile, the first source of continuous electric current.
electricity, electrochemistry, pneumatic chemistry
Cornish chemist who used the voltaic battery to isolate potassium, sodium and the alkaline-earth metals, showed chlorine to be an element and invented the miner's safety lamp.
chemistry, electrochemistry, physics
Swedish chemist who measured accurate atomic weights, introduced modern chemical symbols, discovered cerium, selenium and thorium, and named isomerism and catalysis.
chemistry, electrochemistry, mineralogy
English experimental physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction, the laws of electrolysis, diamagnetism and the magneto-optical effect, and introduced the concept of the field.
electromagnetism, electrochemistry, magneto-optics
Experimental chemist who founded spectral analysis with Kirchhoff, discovered caesium and rubidium, and made gas analysis, photochemistry and calorimetry quantitative.
chemistry, analytical chemistry, spectroscopy
Founder of physical chemistry as a discipline, author of the dilution law and the modern definition of catalysis, and 1909 Nobel laureate in chemistry.
physical chemistry, electrochemistry, catalysis
Swedish founder of physical chemistry who proposed ionic dissociation, the Arrhenius equation for reaction rates, and the first quantitative estimate of carbon-dioxide warming.
physical chemistry, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics