Electrolysis - Experimenters

Experimenters

Scientific pioneers of electrolysis include:

• Antoine Lavoisier
• Robert Bunsen
• Humphry Davy
• Michael Faraday
• Paul Héroult
• Svante Arrhenius
• Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
• William Nicholson
• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
• Alexander von Humboldt
• Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

Pioneers of batteries:

• Alessandro Volta
• Gaston Planté

More recently, electrolysis of heavy water was performed by Fleischmann and Pons in their famous experiment, resulting in anomalous heat generation and the discredited claim of cold fusion.