The world's oldest Nobel Prize winner, who helped develop lithium-ion batteries, is remembered as a scientific leader.
abc.net.au/news/john-goodenough-nobel-prize-lithium-ion-battieries-dies-100/102527238John Goodenough, who became the oldest Nobel Prize winner in 2019 for his work developing the lithium-ion battery which allows for rechargeable power in devices ranging from mobile phones to electric cars, has died aged 100.
Lithium-ion batteries were the first truly portable and rechargeable batteries, and they took more than a decade to develop. Mr Goodenough, Mr Whittingham and Mr Yoshino each had unique breakthroughs which laid the foundation for developing commercial rechargeable batteries, and the three shared the $US900,000 Nobel Prize.Mr Whittingham's work in the 1970s harnessed the tendency of lithium — the lightest metal — to give away its electrons to make a battery capable of generating just over two volts.
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