György Inzelt - a tribute on the occasion of his 65th birthday

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With this issue of the Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, we celebrate the 65th birthday of Gyorgy Inzelt, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Gyorgy Inzelt is a very well-known and highly respected member of the electrochemical community. Born on November 2, 1946 in Budapest, he studied chemistry at the Eotvos Lorand University and obtained his PhD in 1972. Among others, Tibor ErdeyGruz and Gyorgy Horanyi were his academic teachers. Gyorgy Inzelt (better known to non-Hungarians as George Inzelt) has worked on various topics of physical chemistry and electrochemistry, e.g. the determination of selfdiffusion coefficients in solvent mixtures, polymer-gel structures, hydration of polymers, electrochemical oscillations, electrochemistry of organic compounds, adsorption on electrodes, etc. Since the early 80th of the twentieth century, he published papers on electrodes modified by electroactive films. His first study in this area dealt with films modified by tetracyanoquinodimethane, which was started when Gyorgy Inzelt was working in 1982–1983 with James Q. Chambers at the University of Tennessee. Back to Hungary, he continued this research and expanded it into various directions, working with several electrochemically active polymers. Now, Gyorgy Inzelt is a worldwide recognised specialist in the field of conducting polymer films and other modified electrodes, while his research activities span a much wider range, including sensors, electrochemistry of solid microcrystals, electrochemical oscillations, electrocatalysis, electrosorption, etc. Going back to his career, it needs mentioning that he received the Doctor of Science degree in 1988 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has served two terms as national secretary (1993–1998) and three terms (1996–2003) as co-chairperson of Division 2 (“Electronically and Ionically Conducting Phases”) of the ISE. He was elected for the position of chairperson of Division 1 in 2005, and from 2007, he served as the chair (chair-elect, past chair) of Division 1 (Analytical electrochemistry). Gyorgy Inzelt is a IUPAC Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of Division 1. He has been the chairman of the Electrochemistry Commission of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1994–2006). He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Electrochimica Acta (1997–2002, F. Scholz (*) Universitat Greifswald, Institut fur Biochemie, Felix-Hausdorff-Strase 4, 17487 Greifswald, Germany e-mail: fscholz@uni-greifswald.de