Brian E. Conway

Brian Evans Conway, FRSC, chemistry professor (born 26 January 1927 in Farnborough, England; died 9 July 2005). Brian E. Conway has been called “the dean of electrochemistry in Canada.” (See also Chemistry Subdisciplines.)

Education and Career

After obtaining his doctorate from the University of London in 1949, Brian E. Conway worked as a research associate at the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute in London. From 1955 until 1957 he was assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Department of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He retired in 1993 as professor emeritus. (See also Chemistry; Chemistry Subdisciplines.)

Publications

Brian E. Conway published over 260 scientific research articles, was a senior editor of two series, Comprehensive Treatise of Electrochemistry and Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, and has written Electrochemical Data (1969), Kinetics and mechanisms of Electrode Processes (1983) and Ionic Hydration in Chemistry and Biophysics (1981).