This is

is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Steve Mursky.

This year's prize is about a rechargeable world.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the

2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry jointly

witting him and Akira Yoshino for the development of Lythium

Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

Joran Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy earlier today.

John Be Good Enough was born in Jainain, 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 Good Enough is the oldest Nobel Laureate ever awarded the prize.

Dr Ashkin, last year's physics Laure physics laureate is actually a couple of months younger.

M Stanley Wittingham was born in 1941 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 a professor at Mayo University inIGoya and he's also affiliated with the Asai Kasei Corporation in Tokyo in Japan.

And now I'd like to ask Saurus Nogruflins of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry

to make some remarks about the prize.

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewards the development of lithium-ion batteries.

We have gained access to a technical revolution.

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