Electrochemical Power Sources: Primary and Secondary Batteries

Born in New Zealand, Monty Barak was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1926 and worked under Sir Harold Hartley at Oxford. He received a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in 1929 and worked with Sir Hugh Taylor at Princeton University, USA.An assistant lecturer at Kings College, London, he later joined the Chloride Electrical Storage Company (now the Chloride Group), where he was chief chemist of the main storage battery factory, director of the research and development laboratories and finally scientific adviser.Dr Barak served on the committees of the Council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Science Museum Advisory Council, as a founder member and first chairman of the UK Society for Electrochemistry (now the Electrochemistry Group of the Chemical Society), and was awarded the Frank Booth medal in 1970 from theInternational Power Sources Symposium Committee.He has filed a number of patents and contributed manyreviews and articles on storage batteries, fuel cells andrelated power sources.