Conway, Brian

Conway, Brian, Electrochemical supercapacitors scientific fundamentals and technological applications. New York Kluwer/ Plenum, 1999. 

Volume 39 is dedicated to the memory of Professor Brian E. Conway, a leading electrochemist, a splendid teacher, a wonderful friend, a great man, whom the entire electrochemical community will always remember. 

I remember meeting Brian Conway on the road, Queens Gate, which leads from Imperial College, London University, to the Tube Station in South Kensington, London. It was a Saturday afternoon in 1946. I was one year into a lectureship (assistant professorship in U.S. terms) at Imperial College, the technologically oriented part of London University. Brian stopped me to say that he wanted to do his graduate research with me. He was 20 and I, 23. 

Brian Conway entered my research group at Imperial College in its second year. There are some who have called the years between 1946 and 1950 as the Golden Years of Electrochemistry because the development of the subject as a part of physical chemistry was pioneered in those years, primarily by the remarkable set of people who were in the group at that time and who spread out with their own students and ideas after they left me. 

The only woman in the group, Hanna Rosenburg, should be mentioned here because she had an extended influence on Brian Conway, based partly on her remarkable ability to discuss widely. 

One day in this Summer of 2005, Nina called to tell me that the doctors declared the prostate cancer which he had suffered had metastasized and that they could no longer control it. I placed myself at Brian s disposal in respect to anything that he wanted, - I worked here through the well-known Barry Macdougall, an ex Conway student. Through him I passed to Brian photographs from the London days, and these contained, among others, the one he most... 

Acknowledgements. Much help was obtained from colleagues in a general way. Their advice has been, by and large, respected. Dr. Ron Fawcett of the University of California, Davis, read and criticized part of Chapter 6. Chapters 8 and 9 were reported upon by Prof. Brian B.E. Conway, University of Ottawa. Chapter 9 was monitored by Dr. Rey Sidik at Texas A M University. Chapter 10 was discussed with Prof. Nathan Lewis, Stanford University. Chapter 11 was commented upon by Dr. Norman Weinberg. Chapter 12 was studied and corrected by Dr. Robert Kelly, University of Virginia. Chapter 13 was read and criticized by Prof. AJ. Appleby, Texas A M University and Dr. Supramaniam Srinivasan, Princeton University. Chapter 14 was commented upon by Dr. Martin Blank, State University of New York, and Chapter 15 by Dr. Robert Gale of Louisiana State University. 

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