World’s oldest Nobel laureate and co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries John B. Goodenough died on Sunday, a month wanting his one hundred and first birthday.
“The American was a pacesetter on the reducing fringe of scientific analysis all through the various a long time of his profession,” mentioned Jay Hartzell, President of the College of Texas at Austin. Goodenough was a school member on the College for 37 years. “Goodenough was a devoted public servant, a sought-after mentor and a superb but humble inventor,” the College mentioned in a press release.
Goodenough was 97 when he acquired the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry – together with Britain’s Stanley Whittingham and Japan’s Akira Yoshino, for his or her respective analysis into lithium-ion
batteries – making him the oldest recipient of a Nobel Prize, Reuters reported.
Born in Germany in 1922 to American dad and mom, Goodenough served within the US military as a meteorologist. Goodenough graduated in arithmetic from Yale College and did PhD in physics from the College of Chicago.
“This rechargeable battery laid the inspiration of wi-fi electronics reminiscent of cell phones and laptops,” Reuters reported quoting the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Goodenough was a researcher and group chief on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise and later headed the inorganic chemistry lab on the College of Oxford, Reuters reported.
