At 5:45 pm Beijing time on October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it would award the 2019 Nobel Chemistry Prize to Professor John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, Professor M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton, and Akira Yoshino, chemist at Asahi Kasei Company in Japan, for their outstanding contributions to the research and development of lithium batteries.
97-year-old John B Goodenough also became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in history.
John B Goodenough, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, the father of lithium batteries, and a member of the American Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the Japan Prize in 2001, the Fermi Award in 2009, the National Medal of Science in 2011, and the Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2014. The old man was born on July 25, 1922, a veteran of World War II, graduated from the Department of Mathematics at 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 Akira graduated from Kyoto University's major in engineering research. The developer of lithium-ion batteries used in smartphones and electric vehicles, a researcher at Asahi Kasei, the director of the Yoshino Research Office of Asahi Kasei Co., Ltd., and a special professor of engineering research at Kyoto University.
Responsible Editor | Wu Yiwen
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