John Goodenough, creator of the lithium-ion battery and Nobel Prize winner, died on June 25 at the age of 100. This was reported at the University of Texas, where he has worked since 1986. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Born July 25, 1922 in Jena, Germany, Goodenough received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then headed the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Goodenough's first lithium-ion battery prototype appeared in 1980. After 10 years, Sony patented this development of a scientist. In 2019, Goodenough, along with British Stanley Whittingham and Japanese Akira Yoshino, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research on lithium-ion batteries. At the time of receiving the award, the scientist was 97 years old, he became the oldest laureate.
In recent years, Goodenough has explored new energy storage options, such as solid-state "glass" batteries, and lithium iron phosphate cathodes as alternatives to nickel and cobalt cathodes.
