Andrzej Wieckowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrzej Wieckowski

Chemistry professor

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: Łódź, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 31-Jan-2019

Profession: professor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Andrzej Wieckowski (Polish: Andrzej Wieckowski, February 22, 1945 – January 31, 2019) was an Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the North American Editor of Electrochimica Acta.
He is known for his spectroscopic investigations of electrocatalysis in fuel cells and co-inventing of the direct formic acid fuel cell (DFAFC).
He authored more than 300 publications, has been cited over 13,000 times and has an h-index 60. He was appointed fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2007 and fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2009.
He was awarded the US Department of Energy Prize for outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry in 1992, the ISE Jacques Tacussel Prize in 1998, the ECS David.
C.
Graham Award in 2003, and the ISE Gold Medal in 2007.