John Goodenough, lithium-ion battery inventor dies
(University of Texas at Austin https://bit.ly/3PG5FLY)
John Goodenough, co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery and winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, passed away on June 26 at the age of 100.
John B. Goodenough was born in 1922 in Jena, Germany.
He studied mathematics at Yale University and received a degree in physics from the University of Chicago in 1952.
Goodenough devoted most of his subsequent scientific career to materials science and the development of materials for electrodes.
In 1980, he proposed using cobalt dioxide as a cathode for lithium-ion batteries - this made it possible to increase their energy intensity by several times.
For this discovery, in 2019, Goodenough, together with Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Sources:
- University of Texas at Austin: https://news.utexas.edu/2023/06/26/ut-mourns-lithium-ion-battery-inventor-and-nobel-prize-recipient-john-goodenough/
- BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65993968
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