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Nobel in Chemistry for Lightweight Rechargeable Batteries

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

0:38.6

This year's prize is about a rechargeable world.

0:44.5

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

0:52.8

Jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira

1:01.0

Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.

1:06.0

Joran Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy earlier today.

1:10.0

John Be Good Enough was born in Jena in Germany in 1922.

1:14.6

He obtained his PhD at the University of Chicago

1:18.6

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

1:24.6

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

1:32.0

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

1:38.1

M. Stanley Whittingham was born in 1941 in Nottingham in the United Kingdom. he got his PhD from Oxford University in the UK,

1:47.0

and he is today at Binghampton University of the State University of New York system in the United States.

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Akira Yoshino was born in 1948 in Suita in Japan. He is professor at Mayo University in Nagoya,

2:05.6

and he's also affiliated with the Asai Kasei Corporation in Tokyo in Japan.

2:12.6

And now I'd like to ask Sarah Snoggerup-Lince

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