Electroanalytical Obscurity: An Alternative View

Abstract

In the same issue of Reviews of Polarography in which Prof. Kenji Kano [1] announced the award of the Heyrovský Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences to Prof. Takashi Kakiuchi, its recipient commented [2] on my recent review [3] of the historical development of pH, from the groundbreaking publications of Friedenthal [4] and Sørensen [5] to the present. My review had been triggered by comments in the official IUPAC magazine by one of the twelve co-authors of the latest IUPAC-recommended definition of pH [6], Prof. Camões [7], who wrote that the pH is