Born in New Zealand, Monty Barak was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
in 1926 and worked under Sir Harold Hartley at Oxford. He received
a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in 1929 and worked with Sir Hugh
Taylor at Princeton University, USA.
An assistant lecturer at Kings College, London, he later joined the
Chloride Electrical Storage Company (now the Chloride Group), where
he was chief chemist of the main storage battery factory, director
of the research and development laboratories and finally scientific
adviser.
Dr Barak served on the committees of the Council of the Royal
Institute of Chemistry, the Science Museum Advisory Council, as a
founder member and first chairman of the UK Society for
Electrochemistry (now the Electrochemistry Group of the Chemical
Society), and was awarded the Frank Booth medal in 1970 from
theInternational Power Sources Symposium Committee.
He has filed a number of patents and contributed manyreviews and
articles on storage batteries, fuel cells andrelated power sources.
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