Battery pioneers who made mobile revolution possible win Nobel chemistry prize
Lithium-ion energy storage science has also become central to efforts to fight climate change
09 October 2019 - 17:26
Stockholm/London — Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for putting power in people’s pockets by developing rechargeable lithium-ion batteries which made the global information technology, mobile and fossil fuel-free revolutions possible.
American John Goodenough, at 97, became the oldest winner of a Nobel prize and shares the 9-million krona ($906,000) award equally with Stanley Whittingham from Britain and Akira Yoshino of Japan, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Nobel committee said on Wednesday...
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