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This is Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 9th, 2019.

I'm Steve Merski.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, for the development of lithium-ion

batteries. Joran Hanson, Secretary General of the Academy earlier today. What follows is an edited

version of the rest of the announcement, a brief explainer, and some of the press conference.

John Be Goodenough was born in Jena in Germany in 1922.

He obtained his PhD at the University of Chicago

and is currently affiliated with the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.

Being born in 1922, Dr. Goodenough is the oldest Nobel laureate

ever awarded the prize. Dr. Ashkin, last year's physics laureate, is actually a couple of months younger.

M. Stanley Whittingham was born in41 in Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

He got his PhD from Oxford University in the UK, and he is today at Binghamton University

of the State University of New York system in the United States.

Akira Yoshino was born in 1948 in Suita in Japan.

He is professor at Mayo University in Nagoya and he's also affiliated with the Asai

Kasei Corporation in Tokyo in Japan.

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