Pierre Van Rysselberghe

Pierre Van Rysselberghe (May 18, 1905 – August 21, 1977) was a Belgian-American chemist who contributed significantly to the field of electrochemistry.

Biography Rysselberghe was born in Brussels in 1905. He studied engineering at the L'École polytechnique de Bruxelles (today part of the Université libre de Bruxelles). He moved to the United States for graduate studies, receiving a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University in 1930 under the supervision of James William McBain. In 1956 he returned to Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 1970.

Rysselberghe met his wife Lily at Stanford, who was studying bacteriology They had at least three children. He died in 1977 following a lengthy illness. and silver, which later became part of Pourbaix's project to create potential-pH diagrams of a large number of elements.

In 1949, Rysselberghe, together with several of his European colleagues, co-founded and served as the first president of the International Committee of Electrochemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics, which later became the International Society of Electrochemistry. Rysselberghe also contributed to the standardization of modern electrochemical nomenclature by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Rysselberghe was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1961.