Today, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced the list of winners, John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the honors.
Reason for winning: Recognize their contributions to lithium-ion battery .
2019 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
John B Goodenough, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, father of lithium batteries, American Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, won the 2001 Japan Prize, 2009 Fermi Award, 2011 National Medal of Science and 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize. The old man was born on July 25, 1922, a veteran of World War II, graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Yale University, a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Chicago, and a classmate of Mr. Yang Zhenning. Now at the age of 97, he still insists on researching and looking for the next super battery.
M. Stanley Whittingham, professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at SUNY Binghamton, and pioneer in lithium battery research. Born in 1941, he graduated from , Oxford University . Before joining Binghamton, he worked for the oil company Exxon for a long time and engaged in battery research and development.
Yoshino Akira (Akira Yoshino), born in Japan in 1948. In 1972, Yoshino Aki graduated from the engineering research major of , Kyoto University, . The developer of lithium-ion batteries used in smartphones and electric vehicles, a researcher at Asahi Kasei Company, the director of the Yoshino Research Office of Asahi Kasei Co., Ltd., and a special professor of engineering research at Kyoto University.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners in the past five years
In 2018, half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to American scientist Frances H. Arnold for her realization of the targeted evolution of enzymes; the other half was awarded to American scientist George P. Smith and British scientist Gregory P. Winter for their realization of phage presentation technology for peptides and antibodies.
2017, about Ahim Frank ( Switzerland ), Richard Henderson (English), Jacques Duboche (Switzerland), they developed cryoelectron microscopy technology to determine the structure of biological molecules in the solution with very high resolution.
In 2016, three scientists, Jean-Pierre Sovic, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa, , won awards for "designing and synthesizing molecular machines."
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Swedish scientist Thomas Lindal , American scientist Paul Modric and scientist Aziz Sanjar , who has dual nationalities in the United States and Turkey, indicating that they discovered the mechanism by which cells repair their own DNA, providing broad prospects for innovative cancer treatment methods.
In 2014, the Nobel Prize winners of Chemistry were American scientist Eric Baizger, American scientist William Esco Mornard and German scientist Stefan W. Hull , in recognition of their achievements in the field of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy technology.
"number" says the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1901-2018)
110 times:
1901 to 2018, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded 110 times. During the period 1916, 1917, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1941 and 1942 were not issued in a total of 8 years.
180 people:
1901 to 2018, there were 181 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry , of which Frederick Sanger (August 13, 1918-November 19, 2013) was the only person to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry twice, in 1958 and 1980, respectively. This also means that in fact, the number of people who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is 180.
5 women:
In history, a total of 5 women have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1935, Irena Yorio Curie and her husband Frederick Yorio Curie won the award together.
In 1964, British biochemist Dorothy Mary Hodgkin won the award.
In 2009, Israeli scientist Adagyonath won the award together with two others.
In 2018, American scientist Francis Arnold won the award together with two others.
Family:
The Curie couple is the most successful "Nobel Prize Family". In 1903, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1935, Marie Curie's daughter Irena Yorio Curie and her husband Frederick Yorio Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
35 years old:
The youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is Frederick Jolio Curie. In 1935, he won the award with his wife Irena Yorio Curie, who was only 35 years old. In 1934, Frederick Jolio Curie and his wife published a paper titled "Artificial Generation of a New Radioactive Element" in the journal Nature. With this paper, the couple won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
85 years old:
American chemist John Finn (1917-2010) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for "inventing the method of confirming and structural analysis of biological macromolecule " and "inventing the mass spectrometry analysis method of biological macromolecule".
3 people won the prize together as a trend:
63 people won the prize separately in previous Nobel Prizes of Chemistry Awards, 23 winners won the prize together with a colleague, and 24 times the three people won the prize together. But 17 of the 24 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry since 1995 have been awarded to three. Compared with the 7 times that the three people won together in the first 75 years of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, this trend is very obvious.
2 people were forced to receive the prize:
2 German chemists Richard Kuhn and Adolf Butenandt who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry were unable to accept the prize due to oppression by the Hitler government. Although they received the Nobel Prize certificate and medal afterwards, they were unable to receive the prize.
