The world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner.
John Goodenough, A US materials scientist and Nobel Prize winner regarded as the key figure behind the development of the ubiquitous lithium-ion battery, has died aged 100.
Goodenough’s decades of work in the field of material science and energy storage solutions saw him awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2019, making him the world’s oldest Nobel Prize winner.
His name might not be well known as some, but the products stemming from his research and taken for granted are all around us. Think of the innumerable numbers of devices that have lithium-ion batteries. Where would we be without them? Mobile phones, laptops, electric vehicles and just about every other high powered mobile device could look entirely different.
