World’s oldest Nobel laureate and co-inventor of Lithium-ion batteries John B. Goodenough died on Sunday, a month in need of his a hundred and first birthday.
“The American was a frontrunner on the chopping fringe of scientific analysis all through the various many years of his profession,” stated 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 stated in a press release.
Goodenough was 97 when he obtained 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 mother and father, 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 comparable to cellphones and laptops,” Reuters reported quoting the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Goodenough was a researcher and group chief on the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how and later headed the inorganic chemistry lab on the College of Oxford, Reuters reported.