Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference and identifiable chemical change. These reactions involve electrons moving
English chemist John Daniell (left) and physicist Michael Faraday (right), both credited as founders of electrochemistry
Sir Humphry Davy's portrait in the 19th century.
Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius portrait circa 1880s.
German scientist Walther Nernst portrait in the 1910s.
Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer
Volta battery at the Tempio Voltiano museum, Como
Volta explains the principle of the electric column to Napoleon in 1801.
Leopoldo Pollack, Aula Volta, 1787, Old Campus of the University of Pavia