John Bannister Goodenough, the American co-inventor of lithium ion batteries and a co-winner of 2019 Nobel prize for Chemistry has handed away. He was about to show 101 on twenty fifth July. He was one of many oldest residing Nobel Prize laureates.
Stan Whittingham, who shared the Nobel Prize with Goodenough, initially found that lithium will be saved inside sheets of titanium sulphide. Goodenough perfected it by refining it with a cobalt based mostly cathode to supply a product that now considerably impacts everybody’s lives.
Moreover, he made a key contribution within the improvement of random entry reminiscence (RAM) for computer systems.
John Goodenough was born in Germany and had American origin mother and father. He attended Yale College to persue his research in arithmetic and labored as a meteorologist within the US Military through the Second World Struggle.
Nicholas Grundish, his scholar verified the information of his passing to a media supply.