In Memoriam

摘要

Laurence Declan Burke presented his first ECS paper at the fall meeting in New York in 1974 on the topic "Oxygen Evolution and Corrosion Behavior of Iridium under Anodic Conditions." His final ECS meeting was in Vienna in fall 2009. In the intervening years, he presented many other papers and enlivened the discussions at many a meeting as an active member of the ECS Physical and Analytical Electrochemistry Division. In recognition of his major contributions to electrochemistry, he was named an ECS Fellow in 1995.