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Seminal Publications in Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis

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This compilation of seminal publications in electrochemistry and electroanalysis is neither complete nor are all the listed contributions of the same importance. The authors feel that it might be of interest and very rewarding for people who use electroanalytical methods in the laboratory to go back to the roots and read some of the publications which later initiated strong developments of the science that is presented in this book. Many of the contributions to science cited here became an inherent part of textbooks and common knowledge so that the original work is usually not referred to and access to this information is difficult. The following web pages give access to much more information on the history of electrochemistry and electroanalysis:

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    Zbigniew Stojek

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Scholz, F., Inzelt, G., Stojek, Z. (2010). Seminal Publications in Electrochemistry and Electroanalysis. In: Scholz, F., et al. Electroanalytical Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02915-8_18

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