The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-09
"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
Affiliations:
- University of Texas – Austin, TX, USA
John B. Goodenough
Born: 1922-07-25 in Jena, Germany
Gender: male
Field: American materials scientist (1922–2023)
Biography
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 materials for computer random-access memory and with inventing cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries.