John B Goodenough, the oldest Nobel Prize winner dies at age a hundred: Who was he? | World News

John B Goodenough, the oldest Nobel Prize winner dies at age a hundred: Who was he? | World News [ad_1]

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John Goodenough, an eminent Nobel laureate and pioneer in the development of lithium-ion batteries, handed absent on Sunday at the age of a hundred. Goodenough's landmark contribution in the subject of chemistry currently powers cell telephones and electric powered autos, for which the American scientist was awarded the prestigious 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Notably, Goodenough grew to become the oldest receiver at any time of a Nobel Prize for acquiring the accolade at the age of ninety seven.

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John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner.(REUTERS file image)

Who was John Goodenough? 5 factors about him:

1)Goodenugh would have turned one zero one following thirty day period. He was born on July twenty five, 1922, in Jena, Germany, to American dad and mom. He pursued his undergraduate scientific studies in arithmetic at the esteemed Yale College ahead of acquiring his master's and PhD in physics from the College of Chicago in 1952.

2)He went on to to develop into a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies and afterwards served as the head of of the inorganic chemistry lab at the College of Oxford in Britain.

3)Goodenough performed a pivotal purpose in the early advancement of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathodes. Right now, LFP is promptly overtaking additional-pricey nickel cobalt manganese in electric powered car batteries, owing to LFP's abundance, sustainability, and considerably reduce price. Other than him, Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino also shared the prize for their analysis in this subject the identical 12 months.

4)Goodenough also served as a meteorologist in the US Military throughout the 2nd World War. He is explained as "a chief at the slicing edge of scientific analysis in the course of the numerous many years of his job," by Jay Hartzell, the president of College of Texas at Austin in which he served as a professor in the ultimate several years of his lifestyle.

5)He joined the Texas college in 1986 and ongoing as a school member for the following 37 several years until eventually his demise. He and his staff at the college have been lately discovering new instructions for vitality storage.

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