Podcast Extra: Q&A with Nobel Prize winner John B Goodenough
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:32.4 | Hi, listeners, Benjamin here with another quick podcast extra just ahead of the main show. Today, the winners of the |
| 0:39.5 | Nobel Prize for Chemistry were announced. One of them is John B. Good Enough from the University of |
| 0:44.9 | Texas at Austin in the US. John was awarded his prize for his work in the development of something |
| 0:50.7 | that almost everyone takes for granted, and that is the lithium-ion battery. |
| 0:56.3 | John happened to be over in the UK today, as he's also about to be awarded the Royal Society's |
| 1:00.9 | Copley Medal. So I popped over to the Royal Society here in London for a quick chat with him. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, John, today you were announced as one of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. |
| 1:10.5 | How are you feeling right now? Well, I, today you were announced as one of the co-winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. How are you feeling right now? |
| 1:12.4 | Well, I'm very grateful that I had that honor. |
| 1:17.6 | It's splendid, but I'm the same person I was before. |
| 1:23.9 | And I understand you missed the call from the Nobel Committee this morning. |
| 1:28.1 | When did they manage to actually reach you? |
| 1:30.6 | They didn't reach me, but somebody with a cell phone managed to get the information on the phone this morning |
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