Benzinga.com: End Of An Era: John B. Goodenough, Father of Lithium-Ion Batteries And Trailblazing Nobel Laureate, Dies At 100
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John B. Goodenough
John Bannister Goodenough was an American materials scientist, a solid-state physicist, and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. From 1986 he was a professor of Materials Science, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Texas at Austin. He is credited with identifying the Goodenough–Kanamori rules of the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials, with developing mat…
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science · American materials scientist (1922–2023) · physicist · inventor · meteorologist · university teacher · also John B. Goodenough, John B Goodenough, J. B. Goodenough, J B Goodenough, J. Goodenough, J Goodenough
Born 25 July 1922 · Died 25 June 2023 · Q906529
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2023· 6 entries
techtimes: Lithium-Ion Battery Creator John B. Goodenough Passes Away at 100
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The Verge: John B. Goodenough, who shared a Nobel Prize for his work on the lithium-ion battery, has died
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UPI: John B. Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery, dies at 100
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One month shy of what would have been his 101st birthday
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Died 2023-06-25.
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2021· 1 entry
Awarded Washington Award (2021).
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2019· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
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Won Copley Medal (2019).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry alongside M
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2018· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded Welch Award in Chemistry (2017).
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Goodenough and his team at the University of Texas published a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science on their demonstration of a glass battery, a low-cost all-solid-state battery that is noncombustible an
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded The Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation (2015).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2015).
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2014).
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2011· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2011).
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2010).
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Was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society
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Goodenough joined the technical advisory board of Enevate, a silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology startup based in Irvine, California
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award (2009).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela (2002).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded Japan Prize (2001).
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For his discoveries of the materials critical to the development of lightweight high energy density rechargeable lithium batteries, and he, Whittingham, and Yoshino shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their rese
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Olin Palladium Award (1999).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded ACM Fellow (1995).
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1990· 1 entry
The AERE licensed Goodenough's patents to Sony Corporation, which was followed by other battery manufacturers
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Von Hippel Award (1989).
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1980· 1 entry
That by using LixCoO2 as a lightweight, high energy density cathode material, he could double the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
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1976· 1 entry
For his work designing materials for electronic components and clarifying the relationships between the properties, structures, and chemistry of substances
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Centenary Prize (1975).
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1967).
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1944· 1 entry
Covering his expenses by tutoring and grading exams
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1922· 2 entries
To American parents, Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893–1965) and Helen Miriam (Lewis) Goodenough
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Born 1922-07-25.
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