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Richard C. Alkire is Professor Emeritus of Chemical& Biomolecular Engineering Charles and Dorothy Prizer Chair at the University of Illinois, Urbana, USA. He obtained his degrees at Lafayette College and University of California at Berkeley. He has received numerous prizes, including Vittorio de Nora Award and Lifetime National Associate award from National Academy.

Heinz Gerischer was a German scientist. He was the thesis advisor of future Nobel laureate Gerhard Ertl. The Heinz Gerischer Award of the European section of The Electrochemical Society is named in his honour.

Dieter M. Kolb is Professor of Electrochemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany. He received his undergraduate and PhD degrees at the Technical University of Munich. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. He worked as a Senior Scientist at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin and completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin, where he also was Professor. Prof. Kolb has received many prizes and is a member of several societies.

Charles W. Tobias is the author ofAdvances in Electrochemical Science and Engineering, Volume 1, published by Wiley.

The Surface Chemistry of Silicon in Fluoride Electrolytes (P. Searson).

In-Situ Infrared Fourier Transform Spectroscopy: A Tool to Characterize the Metal-Electrolyte Interface at a Molecular Level (T. Iwasita& F. Nart).

Electrochemical Reactions in Nonaqueous and Mixed Solvents (Z. Galus).

Charge Transfer Kinetics at Water-Organic Solvent Phase Boundaries (Z. Samec& T. Kakiuchi).

Electrolytic Processes for Pollution Treatment and Pollution Prevention (P. Tatapudi& J. Fenton).

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