2005 South African Science Park Street Naming

Michael Thackeray of Argonne National Laboratory's Chemical Engineering Division was recently honored as one of 11 notable South African scientists and innovators to have streets named after them in Pretoria's new Innovation Hub science park. A native of South Africa, Thackeray was honored for his work with electrode materials for lithium batteries used to power objects such as cellular phones, conducted when he worked for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Fellow honorees included Thackeray's CSIR colleague Johan Coetzer, four South African Nobel Prize winners, two astronauts, and South Africa's first civilian to fly into space.