John Bannister, American co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery, passes away
Renowned American scientist John Bannister Goodenough, co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery and co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has passed away. Goodenough was just a month away from his 101st birthday. His British-American counterpart, Stan Whittingham, shared the Nobel Prize with Goodenough for his groundbreaking work.
Whittingham initially discovered that lithium could be stored in titanium sulfide sheets, and Goodenough perfected the concept by incorporating a cobalt-based cathode, resulting in a product that has become an integral part of people's lives today.
In addition to his groundbreaking work on the lithium-ion battery, John Goodenough played a key role in the development of random access memory (RAM) for computers.
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According to the Nobel Prize website, John Goodenough was born in Jena, Germany, to American parents. He pursued his studies in mathematics at Yale University before serving as a meteorologist in the US Army during World War II.
Goodenough later continued his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he earned his doctorate in physics in 1952. He conducted research at renowned institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Goodenough served as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin during his career.
In 2008, John Goodenough wrote his autobiography, titled "Witness to Grace", which delves into his personal history. Professor Pritam Singh of the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (IIT-BHU), who had the privilege of being one of GoodInf's students.
