Native name Estere Sans Nationality American | Name Esther Takeuchi Fields Materials Science | |
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Institutions Stony Brook UniversityUniversity at Buffalo Institution | ||
Ub professor esther takeuchi receives nation s highest honor for technological achievement
Esther Sans Takeuchi (born Esther Sans, Latvian: Estere Sāns) is a materials scientist and chemical engineer, working on energy storage systems and power sources for biomedical devices. She is also a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She holds more than 145 U.S. patents.
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- Ub professor esther takeuchi receives nation s highest honor for technological achievement
- University at buffalo alumni association achievement awards esther takeuchi
- Life and career
- Awards
- References
University at buffalo alumni association achievement awards esther takeuchi
Life and career
Takeuchi is the daughter of Mary and Rudolf Sans, Second World War refugees from Latvia. Rudolf and Mary fled Soviet-occupied Latvia for Germany in 1945, living in a refugee camp for several years, ultimately immigrating to the United States. Takeuchi graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 having majored in Chemistry and History. She then worked on her PhD in Organic Chemistry at Ohio State University until 1981. After completing post-doctoral training in electrochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Buffalo, she worked at Greatbatch Inc. in Clarence, New York for 22 years. It was here, under the funding of Wilson Greatbatch, that Takeuchi developed the Li/SVO battery. In 2007, she joined academia at the University of Buffalo as the Greatbatch Professor of Advanced Power Sources. She is currently a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of Chemistry, and Material Science and Engineering. She was selected as the 2013 recipient of the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry awarded by the American Chemical Society. Takeuchi is also a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and served as the organization's president from 2011-2012.
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