The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-09
"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"
Affiliations:
- Binghamton University, State University of New York – New York, NY, USA
M. Stanley Whittingham
Born: 1941-12-22 in United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British-American chemist (born 1941)
Biography
Sir Michael Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist. He is a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.