Electroanalytical Chemistry

Allen J. Bard is a professor and Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1958. The author or coauthor of several books and more than 800 papers and over 23 patents, Dr. Bard was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and editor or coeditor of Standard Potentials in Aqueous Solution (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), the multivolume Electroanalytical Chemistry series (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), the Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry of the Elements (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), and Electrochemical Methods (with Larry R. Faulkner). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982 and is past president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. Dr. Bard received a B.S. degree (1955) from the City College of New York, New York, and M.A. (1956) and Ph.D. (1958) degrees from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has received a number of awards, including the Palladium medal of the ECS, the Priestly medal of the ACS, the Welch award, and the Wolf prize.