Nate Leonard wins Norman Hackerman Young Author Award

Congratulations to Nate Leonard for winning the 2014 Norman Hackerman Young Author Award from the Electrochemical Society. Nate was honored for his paper “Analysis of Adsorption Effects on a Metal-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalyst Using a Rotating Ring-Disk Study” published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. Nate made an excellent contribution to our ability to model ORR kinetics on non-PGM catalysts by including Langmuir adsorption effects in the analysis of his ring-disk data.

Nate will receive his award at the Fall 2015 meeting of the ECS in Phoenix this October. He joins a long line of illustrious awardees, including academic “ancestors” Alan West and John Newman. We are particularly pleased that Nate’s award-winning paper appeared in a JES Focus issue honoring Adam Heller for his lifelong contributions to Electrochemistry.