On October 9th local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that John B. Goodenough, Stanley ·Whitingham and Yoshino Akira Yoshino, the United States, Britain and Japan, won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, commending their contributions to the research in lithium-ion battery .
John B. Goodenough is the father of lithium batteries. He made lithium batteries smaller, larger in volume and more stable in use, thus achieving commercialization, and at the same time started the process of portability of electronic devices. Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 97 years old.
John B. Goodinav
John Barnister Goodinav, an American solid physicist, is an important scholar in the secondary battery industry. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the University of Texas at Austin.
M·Stanley Wittinghan
He is currently a professor of chemistry and is the director of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at the State University of New York Binghamton University and Director of of Materials Science and Engineering at
Yoshino Akira
Yoshino Akira, a Japanese chemist, currently a researcher at Asahi Kasei and a professor at Maize University. Purple Strip Commendation. Yoshino is the inventor of modern lithium-ion batteries and has won the Global Energy Award and the Charles Stark Draper Award, the highest honor in engineering.
(Source: People's Daily Client)