09/21/2018
Electrochemical Society Chapter at FIU proudly present:
September 28, 3 pm, EC 1115
Professor Digby Macdonald from UC Berkeley will give an interesting talk.
Professor Macdonald gained his BSc (1965) and MSc (1966) degrees in Chemistry at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and his Ph.D. degree (1969) in Chemistry from the University of Calgary in Canada. He has served as Lecturer in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Senior Research Associate at Alberta Sulfur Research, Honorary Associate Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Calgary, Director and Professor of the Fontana Corrosion Center, Ohio State University, Vice President, Physical Sciences Division, SRI International, Menlo Park, California and has been Professor and later Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University from 1991 to 2012. Professor Macdonald has received numerous awards and honors, including the 1991 Carl Wagner Memorial Award from The Electrochemical Society; the 1992 Willis Rodney Whitney Award from The National Association of Corrosion Engineers for “contributions to the science of corrosion”; the H. H. Uhlig Award from The Electrochemical Society; the U. R. Evans Award from The Insitute of Corrosion, UK; and the Wilson Research and Teaching Awards of the Pennsylvania State University. He is an elected fellow of NACE-International; The Electrochemical Society; the Royal Society of Canada; the Royal Society of New Zealand; ASM International; the World Innovation Foundation; the Institute of Corrosion (UK); and the International Society of Electrochemistry. He was a recent recipient of the Lee Hsun Research Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2012, he was awarded the Faraday Memorial Trust Gold Medal by CERC in Karaikudi, India, being only the fourth (and second foreigner) to be so honored, and in September 2013 he was be the fourth person to be honored with the Gibbs Award from the International Association on the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his work on the phenomenon of passivity. Finally, under his tutelage, more than 150 students have graduated with advanced degrees in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering over the past four decades. Dr. Macdonald has published more than 940 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings, plus four books, one of which ("Transient Techniques in Electrochemistry") established an important area of electrochemical research, and has 10 patents and numerous invention disclosures credited to his name. His professional competence lies in the fields of electrochemistry, corrosion science, battery science and technology, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, high-temperature aqueous chemistry, nuclear power technology, energy conversion technology, and physical chemistry.
